[Bug 164550] Apply style by default instead of manual formatting

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164550

--- Comment #3 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
What you're essentially proposing is starting to disrupt Writer's functioning
as a direct-formatting editor. While this particular suggestion is limited just
to keyboard shortcuts - one would then wonder why have buttons for italic or
boldface rather than offer buttons for some useful character styles.

I am against making such a change, as things currently stand.

Also remember, that most character styles will not have such shortcuts; and I
am worried that this focus on the two styles of Emphasis and Strong Emphasis is
unjustified, relative to other character styles. 

Finally, "mechanically" replacing DF with application of a generic style is not
necessarily valid in terms of semantics. The user may be applying DF to express
something else than Emphasis or Strong Emphasis. Very often, what should be
encouraged (albeit not by the application) is for the user to define paragraph
and character styles specific to the content domain of the document - which may
or may not involve italicization or use of boldface - and use those.

Oh, by the way - in some languages (like Hebrew or Arabic), there is basically
no such thing as "italics"; and what is actually often used is
typographically-horrid slanting that makes no sense.

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