<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Highlighting no fill is not the same as no fill; there is still direct formatting present according to paragraph style" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135871#c59">Comment # 59</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Highlighting no fill is not the same as no fill; there is still direct formatting present according to paragraph style" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135871">bug 135871</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:telesto@surfxs.nl" title="Telesto <telesto@surfxs.nl>"> Telesto</a> <pre>(In reply to Dan Lewis from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=135871#c58">comment #58</a>) > Actually, there is a simple solution to this. Highlighting does nothing > more than to change the background color of the selected area. Now > background color is property of both paragraph and character styles. If you > want to highlight a paragraph, create a new paragraph style with this > property. (Right click the style that was used before the highlighting. > Select New > Area > Color. Select the color you want, or create a new color. > Name the new paragraph style.) Select the paragraph to be highlighted, and > double click the new paragraph style. A character style for each highlight > color can be created the same way. > In other words, do not use things like highlighting, font color, etc., or > any other button which duplicate what styles can do. Thanks for the different approach/workaround. However I wish it where that simple. Not the case, IMHO :-( If I have bold text with CS style, this will be removed by the CS highlighting style. Except if I create a CS highlighting + bold style. I'm one of those who 'paints' documents. So surely using 8 colors once in a while. * So first pain is having to create all those CS for every document. Solution: create a template. True, but template can't use for documents of others. * And creating a CS style for all of those combinations, will become a unpractical long list * You must be pretty selective. So a selection with partly bold text in it must be split in parts to apply to proper highlighting. * And keep in mind that - at least I - use highlighting only temporally. So isn't intended to be around for ever. And 'styles' are for structural layout, not for temporally stuff? And unwinding (removing all superfluous styles will be painful * An last problem I see, they lovely style names are lost on DOCX export. So doing this in DOCX isn't fun either. And for the record: the topic is limited to highlighting (which this topic started about, but not totally adequate). This does also apply for formatting like BOLD/UNBOLD. This could be done with styles to. But CTRL+B pretty common short cut and markdown autocorrect doing it wrong too. I could say, every DF combination should create a new CS style. However that isn't desired either. Or formatting must become tristate or (say bold/unbold/disabled). Or pressing UNBOLD button with PS BOLD, unbolds. And gets deactivated pressing UNBOLD again. However what happens in case of PS BOLD, pressing UNBOLD, changing PS BOLD to UNBOLD. The DF isn't obvious on screen. And pressing BOLD should activate bold (not disable unbold). Being logically possible to implement, but of course harder. So a indicator if in the toolbar if BOLD active by means of (DF) or (PS/CS). Similar for UNBOLD by being (non), DF, or PS/CS. And now somebody says, some people will not get that. Non doesn't show a symbol. It on if 'DF' and PS/CS are active at the same time. Where DF in principle being on/off switch (except for the PS/CS change). Where Unbold DF can be active while unbold at PS level is active too. But maybe I'm missing/overlooking something essential here.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>