[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142788] New: LO should fully expose the Character Style implicit in every paragraph style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142788

            Bug ID: 142788
           Summary: LO should fully expose the Character Style implicit in
                    every paragraph style
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: Inherited From OOo
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: needsUXEval
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: eyalroz1 at gmx.com

In LO (and particularly Writer), a Paragraph style has an inherent default
character style for that paragraph - as the Paragraph style contains all
properties one would be able to set for a Character style. [1]

However:

1. The Paragraph style UI only allows modifying a subset of the properties of
this character style. So, one can set the default font family and font size,
but not the character/glyph width factor.
2. More generally, these inherent character styles are entirely _implicit_ -
they not mentioned or listed as such anywhere. And the Paragraph style
modification dialog does not make a strong distinction between the
Paragraph-ish properties and the Character-ish properties.

It seems obvious to me all Character-style-properties must be accessible via
the Paragraph style modification UI, somehow.

One way to do this would be to add more tabs; which may be a bit cumbersome,
but seems doable.

Another way to do this would be using the Character style modification dialog
as a sub-dialog of Paragraph style. This seems the "better-structured", perhaps
more elegant, approach; but if this approach is chosen, it may be worthwhile to
consider "recognizing" the existence of these inherent default character styles
elsewhere, in the documentation and perhaps in the UI. 


 [1] : According to Mike Kasanagi on #libreoffice-dev at libera.chat, 2021-06-11

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