[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Owen Genat
jmadero wrote Are styles supposed to retain properties like bold. I am consistently getting mixed results using styles. The comments up-thread by Kevin O'Brien and Brian Barker are correct, despite a number of disagreements. So called direct or manual (directly applied) formatting will always

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, of course! The direct formatting remained on despite pressing Enter a few times. Seems a sensible way to do it thb. If formatting kept flicking back to the style rather than kept going the way the user had set it then it could become quite painful. When i went back to the file and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 12/09/2014 08:38, Owen Genat a écrit : Hi Owen, My experience on several occasions has unfortunately been that the Default style in Writer has hard formatting characteristics which cause application of Heading 3 not to work correctly, and it seems hard to be able to ascribe any particular

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Alex Thurgood wrote: My experience on several occasions has unfortunately been that the Default style in Writer has hard formatting characteristics which cause application of Heading 3 not to work correctly, and it seems hard to be able to ascribe any particular sequence of actions to make it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Heikki Jussila
I think that the percentages that Mark showed are also present in 4.3.1. At least that is my understanding. I have worked for an article to Elsevier today and that had some problems, with headers relating to the main header style. However, the main issue for me is that they want to have the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 10/09/2014 17:56, Dave Barton a écrit : Hi Dave, Setting existing manually formatted text to Heading 3 is an issue, if the formatting is not completely cleared first. Shouldn't applying the style overwrite all previous style information though ? In that case, it would still be a bug. I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Joel Madero
On 09/10/2014 09:36 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 10/09/2014 17:56, Dave Barton a écrit : Hi Dave, Setting existing manually formatted text to Heading 3 is an issue, if the formatting is not completely cleared first. Shouldn't applying the style overwrite all previous style information

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:36 10/09/2014 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: Shouldn't applying the style overwrite all previous style information though ? This depends on what you mean. Applying one style of a type (character, paragraph, page, etc.) should replace the effects of the previous style of that type - but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Joel Madero
Bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83726 Best, Joel On 09/10/2014 10:10 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:36 10/09/2014 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: Shouldn't applying the style overwrite all previous style information though ? This depends on what you mean. Applying one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think just post the bug-report as is at the moment. Then come back to do all the fancy stuff later. Otherwise i tend to find weird time-distortions happen and get me in all sorts of trouble. Regards from Tom :) On 10 September 2014 17:39, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I've sometimes had to bounce around between 2 or 3 unwanted styles before the desired style will fully apply. It's a bit of a pain but i figured it was just me stuffing up somehow. However, i am pretty sure that is a separate issue. What Joel is showing is soemthing i've not seen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-10 Thread Sophie
Hi Brian, Le 10/09/2014 19:10, Brian Barker a écrit : At 18:36 10/09/2014 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: Shouldn't applying the style overwrite all previous style information though ? This depends on what you mean. Applying one style of a type (character, paragraph, page, etc.) should replace