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    > I am not sure how to represent nested blocks with per-character text
    > properties.  In principle we could have other kinds of data associated
    > with the text to supplement text properties, but what could we design
    > that would fit in properly with cut and paste?

    Perhaps such portions of text should only be cut-n-pasted as
    rectangles.

How would that help?