Feature request: multiple (nested?) character styles

[sebwin]

I realize that this is probably no easy feat to pull off, but maybe because NWP uses the same moniker, "style sheet", for the formatting manager as CSS, I find myself wanting more powerful cascading options.
Particularly, I would like to be able to apply more than just one character style to a given passage of text, so that, for example I could have a passage marked as highlighted, which contains a word I've marked technical term. At the moment I have to fall back on "hard marking" one or the other, so I'd better not change my mind later on as to how I want highlighted text to appear.
I don't know how the RTF format works, but if this were at all possible, it would be an enormously powerful and useful feature.

[martin]

I'm not sure the RTF specification has support for additive/cumulative character styles. And unfortunately, it seems that Microsoft Word itself doesn't either (at least, I couldn't find a way to do so).

Of course, we definitely don't limit NWP's features to only things supported by Word/RTF, but this could be a tricky one to add and keep our files compatible in a clean way. Probably when saving files we'd have to generate a fake/temporary character style for each place styles overlap (eg: "Highlighted + Technical Term"), one fake style for each combination of overlapping styles. Then when NWP reads and detects its own file, it could resolve that fake style back into its constituent styles.

Well, I believe we have this feature request filed already, and I'll be sure to add your vote. Thanks!

[phspaelti]

I'd like to add my vote for that one too.