4.2a Beta 4: Additive nature of highlighting styles is problematic
I need to be able to set a particular style that will override any underlying formatting. For example my "Yellow Highlight" style uses black text and yellow highlighting, but "Purple Alert" uses purple background and white text. If I apply purple alert on top of Yellow Highlight, I want purple background and white text. Black text does not show up on purple+yellow blended highlight.
Another example, I have a series of highighting styles to number points in a book I'm reading. if I apply Point 3 by mistake, and then apply Point 2 as a correction, it should supersede Point 2. But right now the text gets both a 2 and a 3 in front of it. There is no way to selectively turn off highlighting styles on a selection, so now my only recourse to fix it is to clear the highlighting completely from that style and apply Point 2.
Maybe there needs to be a way to set styles as additive or not, because I suppose there are situations when you would want the styles to be additive (an underling plus a background color, for example). But styles like this should supersede others in their same group. Maybe these should be "radio-button" behavior styles, where only one of this particular set can be applied at a time. And all the others tyles would be additive ("checkbox" behavior). Just thinking out loud here...