From kde-bugs-dist  Mon Apr 30 19:36:35 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:36:35 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#24900: apply styles to parts of paragraphs
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On Monday 30 April 2001 14:59, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2001 00:42, you wrote:
> 
> > > Currently user-defined styles can only be applied to the complete
> > > paragraph it seems. It should be possible to have "inline" (!=
> > > "block") styles, just like in HTML/CSS. With this a strong markup
> > > would be possible inside paragraphs.
> >
> > Does any Word Processor allow that ?
> 
> Yes, StarOffice 5.2 has both "paragraph styles" and "character styles" 
> (and some others),  the latter can also be applied to parts of paragraphs.
> 
> The more interesting question is: how difficult is it to implement?

Applying a character style to a selection is easy.
Remembering that some characters belong to a given style requires
an extension in KWTextFormat... Doable :)

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