On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, and those, along with the <bold> <italic> <underline> buttons,
> are a sure way to create an unmaintainable document. It is easy and
> predictable at first and is fine if you only need to hack up a quick
> page, print it out and not even bother to save it. But when writing
> any kind of a long-lived document, direct formatting is a curse.
>

+100.

I have often said that the one way to fix Word is to have all direct
> formatting controls hidden by default, and only allow style-based
> formatting.


Again, +100.

Even M$Word for a while has had both paragraph styles and character
(arbitrary text range) styles.

/john