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A proposition:

It would be nice if one could use character styles to compose paragraph
styles (recently, fonts and font attributes have to be adjusted
manually). One would have less points of change this way.

In 2004, I wrote a book with OpenOffice (about the editor vim, mitp
Verlag, up to now in German only), and the layouter required that
_anything_ had to be a named style (no native italics, bold etc.,
anything with dedicated name). This was so since they had to convert my
draft strongly. I wished I had the feature above then.

Another application: For trainings, I generate two PDFs from OO files -
one with 16pt font for the representation, and then one with 10pt font
for the print handed over. Moreover, the colors in the print have to
be different since the print is black/white. So I have to change font
and color for listings character style and for paragraph style, for HTML
paragraph and character style and so on. A bit error-prone and not so
comfortable.

I understand that this is a change of concept which programmers do like
so much ;-), but it would be a real improvement toward consistent
design. I would like to create one basic character style, derive the
rest from it and build paragraph styles from these character styles.
Font scaling would be _one_ change then. I believe this can convince
people to base on styles only, they realize the comfort.

What is your opinion? Or are there workarounds I have overseen?

I am courious whether MS Office has such a feature ;-))

Best regards

Reinhard Wobst

- -- 
The income tax has made more people liars than the devil.

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