https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170718
--- Comment #3 from Telesto <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > (In reply to Telesto from comment #0) > > > > Steps to Reproduce: > > 1. Open Writer > > 2. CTRL+F12 -> Pick Style: Box list Blue (or any other) > > 3. Select a cell in the top row > > 4. Open the Style Inspector > > > > Actual Results: > > The Paragraph formatting is done as Direct Formatting (DF) > > But is it a Style Inspector issue or an issue in what the document actually > gets? Clear Direct Formatting removes the formatting, so appears to be DF (the text formatting part) > > > Expected Results: > > I kind of expected a Table *Style* to work with Paragraph styles, instead of > > applying DF. > > Not really, you expected a Table Style to work with several Row Styles, > including one for header rows; and a Row Style to work with a Cell Style; > and a Cell Style to work with a Paragraph Style; and a Paragraph Style to > work with a Character Style. A) I probably looked at it rather superficially. I didn't make a distinction between Row Style and Paragraph Style in my mental world. I thought about each cell have a individual paragraph style, which happens to be the same in a row B) I limited my thinking to what I'm able to configure with Edit Styles. So row styles. C) The major issue with styles is simply the sheer amount of variances. [Not really specific to tables, though] 16 elements, already resulting in 16 possibly row styles. And that only for a single table style. And the styles are expected to be identified by label. --- FWIW: I generally start drowning in styles rather quickly. Getting lost in number of styles created by myself. Being unable to identify how a style being different from another. Or unable the find the one, in a lis of 20 Styles don't scale to well, in my perception. Using a style for each and ever case. Styles are lovely for global outline. However defining every variance in a unique style, meh. Also if I modify a style need take to account the possible inheritance. And need to remember where I used it in the document, to prevent unintended modifications Aside from the fact that layout being something of try and error. If I start formatting I might change stuff multiple times before getting it right So I mostly get so frustrated by styles, that I only use it for the basics. You have to be so structured and systematic to deploy it properly. And exactly aware of what you want in advance. I'm not heavy user, so I can rely on DF in most cases > But - you may also expect each of these to have an 'embedded' default style > of the next category down, like how right now a Paragraph Style has an > embedded Character Style (even though we don't admit that and just treat its > properties as PS properties). So, in that sense, you have expected a Table > Style to simply have properties of (default) characters in (default) > paragraphs of (default) cells of (default) header rows of tables with that > style. > > I'll make that point in the dupe bug as well. True -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
