And finally, the direct formatting overrides everything and changes the actual appearance. On top of this we have the character style that changes the appearance too (by definition with not only one but multiple applications, see ticket tdf#115311 with the request to implement nested character styles). Many users ask on our community assistance platform why a particular layout with, let‘s say font X, is active while the style has been defined with font Y.Ī reason is that paragraph styles are hierarchically inherited and may override properties. The first bunch of issues arise around understanding the actual layout. This posting presents two ideas for improved feedback.
In particular when you receive documents from other people, it can be quite difficult to understand the applied formatting and to fix issues around. And while experts love to unleash the power of LibreOffice Writer, it’s at the same time a major source of nuisance.
Styles are the essence of a text processor.
