Need confirmation about non-clearing of Character Styles

[Fernand Vanrie]

Michael plaese see also my reply to Caloán
> On 10/01/13 14:25, Caolán McNamara wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:55 +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
>>> Sinds all or editors use LO 3.6.2 (before OO3.3)
>>>
>>> We have complains about the fact that parts of the text, who are
>>> formated with a Character Style, can not been "cleared" to
>>> no-formating,
>>> not by "Clear Direct Formating (cntrl+M)"
>>>
>>> There is a dirty work-around by applying the "Default" character style
>>>
>>> Paragraph Styles can been cleared....
>>> Is this intentional behavior or a regression open for a issue ?
>> My understanding is
>> a) that its intentional, see
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ooo-build/2010-February/000540.html
>> and the commit
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6e690e0909459d46c53d17e7939891abea11e566
> the corresponding issues are an "interesting" read:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=47893 <- patch author
> arguing for the change
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=85464 <- a certain Cor
> reporting the change as regression :)
>
> i definitely think that there should be some button to reset formatting
> that leaves character styles intact, and that should be the "most easily
> accessible" option.  but i wouldn't object to a second button to reset
> all formatting, including styles.
>
> resetting the character styles should be as easy as setting "Default"
> char style on the whole document, so i'm not sure if another option is
> worth the additional clutter.
if you know this work around yes
>
> but hyperlinks should not be touched by any "reset formatting" since
> they are not formatting, but content entities (the reset feature also
> doesn't convert fields to plain text).
when you works in the printing business you "must" get rid  of this kind 
of formating
>
> also i'm thinking that ruby text should also not be touched by "reset
> formatting", and this has not yet been changed (i.e. it is reset
> currently); the reset will actually throw away the ruby text.  i'm
> already sitting on a patch to remove ruby from the reset list...
idem ditto
>
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