[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 115311] UI missing for nesting character styles

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115311

--- Comment #2 from Kenneth Hanson <khanson679 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> The request is solely technically driven and I recommend to not do that.
> ...
> If we need to support these nested styles (my suggestion would be to remove them from the file format), the easter-eggy shift+click thing is good enough.

I strongly disagree. The ability to nest character styles is extremely
important for complex documents. It's the only sane way to represent semantic
or formatting considerations that are orthogonal to each other.

Style support is a widely touted feature of LO (and rightly so), but these
kinds of limitations (can't nest character styles, can't inherit page styles,
graphic styles not available in Writer, character styles not available in
Impress...) prevents it from realizing its potential.

Undocumented features are just as bad as not having the feature at all, unless
you have unlimited time to tinker. I was extremely excited to learn that this
might already work, because if true it's one less reason that I might need to
use LaTeX. I never would have discovered it if not for Regina's exploration.

Personally, I think a second "apply" button that nests rather than replaces
existing styles would be an unobtrusive way to make nesting available. At the
very least, the double-click feature should be confirmed and added to the help
text.

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