Cor Nouws wrote:
I didn't notice an exeption for the default paragraph style.
Every paragraph style (well, I only tried six ;-) has the same behaviour.
When pasted, direct formatting (be it by Ctrl-B or character styles) the
formatting is included.
When text without direct formatting is pasted, it gets the formatting of
where it is placed.
Not, exactly. That's the problem.
I will use * to indicate bold and _ to indicate italic.
Type two lines in a clean paragraph:
Now is the time for all* good *_men _to come to the aid of the party.
*_The_ *quick* brown dog *_ jumps over _ the lazy dog.
Use emphasis and strong emphasis styles instead of italics and bolding
if you want.
Note I have applied the effects to surrounding spaces, something that
sometimes happens by accident, and sometimes ought to be done, as with a
bold typeface embedded in non-bold text, or a fixed width font embedded
in proportional text.
Copy and paste the second sentence into the first one, so that either
the beginning the pasted sentence touches any of the characters with
italic or bold attributes.
Watch the formatting all of non-italic, non-bold characters die.
The example is forced.
But this kind of situation is real, as anyone who has worked with
complex technical manuals, foreign grammars, and various other technical
writing knows. One does use quite a potpourri various visual styles
within the text, and as in any document, when writing this kind of
stuff, one does move things about with cutting and pasting.
That all the formatting in a string that matches the paragraph default
character formatting should be blown away if it is pasted so that it
happens to follow a single character with any different formatting
attributes from the normal paragraph character style is surprising and
not pleasant, at least to me.
I could live with your rule as well. But I think pasting text without
direct formatting adapts to the place where pasted, is easier than that
it doesn't adapt. That would influence every paste action.
The rules may be logical. I'm almost certain they are. But the question
is whether this particular logical behavior is desirable logical
behavior or whether it should be replaced by different logical behavior
that more users are likely to desire.
Who asked for character attributes to be spread by contact, like a kind
of plague?
The easy answer out of this situation, when it is only the default
paragraph character style that automatically changes, is to avoid use of
the default paragraph character style. Styles should make complex text
easier, not more difficult.
Jallan
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