https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42763
Bug #: 42763
Summary: [FORMATTING] Option to clear style properties, fall
back to "Inherit"
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: LibO 3.4.4 release
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Steps to reproduce:
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1. Open the Styles and Formatting panel by pressing F11. In Paragraph styles,
find "Default", right click on it and select "New...".
2. Name your new style "MyStyle". Leave all settings unchanged, apart from the
font. Change the font to something other than that which Default uses.
3. In the document, type two paragraphs of example text, formatting one of them
as Default and one of them as MyStyle. Their only different should be the font.
4. You are able to increase the font-size of both Styles and paragraphs by
right clicking on Default in the Styles and Formatting panel, clicking
"Modify...", changing the Size setting on the Font tab, then clicking OK on the
Paragraph Style: Default dialogue.
5. However, there is no way to indicate that you wish to have MyStyle use
Default's font settings again. Once the font has been changed in MyStyle, it
can never again defer to or inherit from its "Linked With" style (in this case
the Default style)for this property.
Proposed solution:
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A) Each tab on the "Paragraph Style: <Style>" dialogue box should have a "Clear
All" button. This would clear all manual settings for all properties on that
tab, allowing the style to "fall back" to the settings for the Style's "Linked
With" or parent Style.
or
B) Each control for each property in the "Paragraph Style: <Style>" should have
a setting which explicitly defers to the "Linked With" or parent Style.
- For drop-down menus, this could be a bracketed phrase like "[As StyleFoo]" at
the start or end of the list.
- It's harder to conceive of a good way to present this option for radio
buttons, checkboxes etc, without adding an option to each of these lists, which
would take up a lot of space.
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