https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151223

            Bug ID: 151223
           Summary: let's drop "bold" and "italic", and assign CRTL+B to
                    "strong", CRTL+i to emphasis
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.5.0.0 alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]

hi, 

there is perhaps nothing as annoying as the CTRL+i problem.
it is even more annoying as one can forget how she/he has solved it before, and
stand there again, in front of the same outrageously annoying problem:

sometimes de-italic-ing a selection seems impossible, 
and once it is achieved, clearing all direct formatting will bring it back..


of course, we know what causes this situation, and also know that only if we
have both the formatting and formatting (styles) toolbar active, can we solve
this..

but the question remains how long do we keep to direct formatting in terms of
bold and italic...?

:::::::: suggestions:

 #1:
CTRL+b should mean:   strong
CTRL+i shoud mean emphasis

 #2:
strong + emphasis together should be available, too

 #3:
an internal " '"old' document format" should be established
in which "old bold" and "old italic" should be handled the old way
without the request to "upgrade" to the new standard...

internal = the same ODT thing but wit a "flag" within the file

 #4:
the "old" document format would be indicated at the document name, top bad of
the window:  "doc_title.odt - Libreoffice Writer (o) 

 #5
 when customizing the toolbars, in the styles formatting toolbar the old bold
and italic should net be present, strikethrough either

 #6
the TWO formatting toolbars would have a radio-button style indicator,
clickable, at the beginning of the row... "I." AND "II." in a circle,
and the person using the application could choose to have styles formatting
tool bar, as well as styles based formatting as default, which would mean that
the "primary" toolbar would be the styles toolbar...

and once this mode is engaged, CTRL+b would mean strong, CTRL+i italic
(emphasis)

 #7
 when a document is being opened in such an instance of Writer, switched to
"advanced mode", NO popup would be necessary, of course, but an indication at
the window title could show up: instead of (o), (A) -- not "old", but
"Advanced", using styles not direct formatting

 #8
when the "Advanced mode" is active, "bold" and "italic" silently would turned
into "strong" and "emphasis", bold+italic to strong + emphasis..

 #9
in #8 we just have come to a "conversion", an internal conversion, which can be
used for tons of other things as well... in the future... 




PLEASE don't take these suggestions as concrete and direct ideas... but
instead, view them as suggestions along which a "problem" could be identified
and thought about...

                   & thank you for developing Writer!

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