Create paragraph / text styles from a selection

[can0ra]

Hello all,
I am new to Scribus, just moved from adobe to full open source workflow. I am wondering if there is a way to create text and paragraph styles from the styling of a selected text? Sometimes you need to experiment a certain time with the text before to find the styling you like, and then you want to create a style out of it. A solution is to reproduce manually the settings into a style, but a quicker way to include your styling in a new style would be super handy.

Thank you for your attention 

[utnik]

hi can0ra

there is an old feature request which never made it to be implemented.
as often there are many questions about 'the right behavior':

• should the function just create an independent style or should scribus track your changes and create a child style based on the style you started with?
• if the devs would replace the internal character settings of the paragraph style by a mandatory 'based on', should a single click create both sorts of styles? (as independent styles? as child styles? or user defined?)

personally i would like to define child styles. but i see that this is a bigger task than to  create independent styles.

it might be worth to update the feature request with your ideas and see if it will come to a new life...

utnik