https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90068
Bug ID: 90068
Summary: FORMATTING Proposal to make italic, bold and other
font variants as built-in styles, in addition to
emphasis and strong emphasis, which are not obvious to
inexperienced people and have different actions,
particularly in export targets like LaTeX.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.4.1.2 rc
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In markup languages like HTML and LaTeX (for which LO has export filters),
'emphasis' and 'strong emphasis' don't necessarily mean 'italic' and 'bold'.
They don't seem appropriate for calling explicitly the italic or bold variants
of the current font (or automatic substitutions).
Currently, in LO 'emphasis' and 'strong emphasis' are the only built-in styles
that give italic and bold font variants. If you want to be sure to get italic
and bold, as well as other variants (small caps etc), you have to create your
own new styles. User styles can make your work less easy to follow by other
team members, and they might not be picked up by export filters, which are
increasingly being used.
Quite rightly, LO is making an effort to get us to use styles (character styles
here) instead of direct formatting. This is just good practice; there may even
be a good case for having an option to hide the direct formatting functions.
For this to be practicable for all users, it is essential to have styles for
all common purposes, with names that indicate exactly what the style does.
'Emphasis' and 'strong emphasis' are confusing for people who may not be too
computer-literate but who need to make documents that are ready and reliable
for export, for example, to different publication formats. A complete set of
built-in font-variant styles would help beginners, and also provide a
consistent framework for the design, modification and use of export filters
such as those provided as extensions by Henrik Just.
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