https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143557

--- Comment #11 from Luke Deller <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Justin L from comment #7)
> ODF doesn't (and hopefully never will) have a concept of a 16-color
> highlight character property. So not much can be done here unless someone
> does that evil thing.

Which element did you feel was evil: supporting the concept of character
highlighting as distinct from background shading, or the fact that Word only
offers 16 choices for the highlight colour?

I agree the limitation of colour choice is quite evil, probably a relic of the
past.  The same limitation used to exist elsewhere, eg table border colour was
limited to 16 colours until MS Word 2000.

However the concept of highlighting might have merit: I have seen it employed
by Word users differently than background shading, with semantics matching a
physical highlighter pen.  Indeed the online Word documentation says:
> Word contains many highlighters to make your text pop off the screen just
> as if you were highlighting paper with a fluorescent marker

( from
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apply-or-remove-highlighting-1747d808-6db7-4d49-86ac-1f0c3cc87e2e
)

What do you think of adding a loext: (extension) attribute to persist the
highlighting information that LibreOffice currently holds in memory in this
case?  I could maybe look at a patch for that if the concept sounds reasonable.

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