It's a little more complex than you describe. If I'm using one of my 'list' 
styles where in its specification, the 'next style' is described as the same, I 
can hit return multiple times and each leaves me a blank line in the same list 
style.

If I'm in my regular 'text body' style and I start a new para in that style, 
then I hit one of the list formatting buttons in the toolbar, my paragraph 
remains in the text body style with formatting applied to provide an indent and 
bullet or number. But I am always in the 'text body' style. If I do not enter 
any text but simply hit return, the next paragraph is still in 'text body' 
style but without the additional formatting supplied by the list button.  And 
the button darkening to which you refer has gone.

For writing which will / or may be later transformed into another format such 
as epub, it is better to avoid 'ad hoc' formatting and make a special style.

Philoip

On 16/12/2022 21:18, Eric Beversluis wrote:
Here's a theory that a bit of testing seems to support:

What if, when one hits 'return,' the 'block outline' style has not been applied 
because there's nothing on the new line.

If then, one hits 'return' again, Writer is not longer following up on any 
particular style so it reverts to the default style.

Tending to confirm this: typing just a blank space before hitting the second 
'return' retains the 'block outline' style.

The behavior of the toolbar 'ordered list' icon shows what's happening. When in 
'block outline,' the icon for 'ordered list' is darkened. If I hit two 
'returns' in a row, the 'no list' icon is darkened. Fn-F12 restores the 
'ordered list' setting--the 'ordered list' icon is darkened again.



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