Cor Nouws wrote:
I don't think it is a bug.
If I paste text with character-formatting in paragraph (with of course a
style), it is logic that the pasted text has character-formatting.
If I want to paste without formatting, I choose 'Paste Special'.
Quite reasonable.
But making an exception for the default paragraph character style is not
so reasonable, especially if you are working with text in a number of
different formats adjoining each other, for example dictionary entries
or grammatical text.
There bold, italic, and roman text commonly touch one another. After
all, spaces also must be one of these three.
It is annoying when pasting mixed material of this sort into other mixed
material to see your normal roman text suddenly become italicized or
bold, not retaining its necessary character-formatting, not following
your reasonable logic, but following a more complex logic.
It's nice to know now I could have avoid this unpleasantness by the
kludge of setting my default paragraph font to something like Algerian
and then just using direct formatting instead to paste over it. But I
really shouldn't be encouraged into a kludge like that.
And if I need to get rid of unwnated formatting (mostly in others work)
I choose Format|Default. Removes all direct formatting.
Easy enough.
But the difficulty is that the changing of text in the normal paragraph
font style into bold and italic was unwanted formatting. Yes, I can get
rid of the unwanted, automatic, formatting changes of my normal text to
bold or italic by selecting each such section and applying Format-Default.
If only OOo Writer had followed your logic and the formatting had indeed
been left alone when I pasted.
Increasingly I found myself using Paste Special, not to paste without
formatting, but to paste *with* formatting, using the RTF option and
then removing the extra paragraph it inserts, just to keep the
formatting I wanted.
I can see the logic of considering the default character attributes in a
paragraph style as sort of a background text style, to be treated
specially.
But I don't think it was a good idea to follow that particular logic. I
prefer the logic you first indicated: pasting defaults to retaining
formatting, and would prefer that being the rule in all circumstances.
Jallan
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