hi stevod
if you take a look at the style related feature requests on
bugs.scribus.net, you'll find a lot…
two or three years ago, there was a youtube video floating around, which showed a right click solution for generating styles from a text selection.
i don't know if this function will be part of scribus 1.5 (or 1.6) – at least my 1.5 version (june 2012) doesn't support it.
it would be useful for small documents. but as it would create independent styles instead of styles based on others, for bigger projects the true usefulness might be overestimated…
there are lots of ideas to make scribus better. but at the moment i would not fill the bug tracker with more feature requests. the developers are working as hard on fighting with real bugs that i fear, there wont be a new release in the near future. at the moment the number of open bugs is increasing…
utnik