Subject: Re: commit: piecetable changes
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2001 - 18:40:24 CST
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > I invented "Normal Clean" because I thought that styles were MEANT to be
> > mixed. ie If a property is undefined in style, the style should NOT change
> > the these properties.
> >
> > Think of a style with a single property say, style "german" with the
> > single property, "lang:DE_de", then applying that style to a paragraph
> > with italics, would only set the language property and leave the italics
> > intact. If it behaves by changing properties not defined ithe "german:
> > style then the italics are wiped out.
> >
> > What should happen if I apply style "german" to the paragraph with
> > italics. Are the italics wiped out?
> >
> No, the italics should stay, if, and only if, they are the result of
> manual formatting; if, however, the italics in the paragraph are there
> because before you applied "german" to it was formatted with a
> style called "german-italics" which had italics in its definition, then
> the italics should be removed. I think with the changes I have
> committed earlier today it works this way.
>
Great! I agree with this.
Thanks Tomas,
Martin
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