Re: Styles again.

Subject: Re: Styles again.
From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Sun May 13 2001 - 07:21:38 CDT

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At 12:19 PM 5/13/2001 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> I would like to open another debate about styles again. Right now
>if a property is not defined in a style it gets set to the default
>value. Consequently if I delete the font-family property in a style and
>apply it to a paragraph, the paragraph gets it's font-family set to "Times
>New Roman". I would rather the font-family is left at it's current
>setting.

         Agreed! If a property is undefined, you should leave the current
value of that property alone and NOT change it to a default!

>I think this can be fixed in the backend but the question is should this
>be the default behaviour or should it be a new type of style?

         YES, this should be the default behavior!

LDR

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