Hi
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on style-mapping.
1. In the last screenshot above, you can see that the only
sgc remaining tag relates to the formatiing of the floating image. All the other tags of this kind have been cleared.
2. Usefulness of style-mapping
Using styles throughout the text is essential, and a bold-italic style will of course be very useful. It should better be used every time when a sentence, a paragraph or more has to be transcribed this way.
However the style-mapping of style attributes should be used to tag elements of much smaller size than a sentence (words, letters and so on). It should be seen as a way to give more comfort to the author. It could be inconvenient to call the F11 window (Styles and formatting) just for one single word, sometimes even for only some letters. With style-formatting, W2X will pick them up later. There is no particular problem to join two tags to map bold-italic, you just have to pick the good ones.
As I wrote it, I use it for bold, italics, bold-italics, superscript and overstrike.
This way you still can use hard formatting style attributes in OpenOffice but you manage to get rid of all of them later with W2X style-mapping. You get somewhat the best of both worlds...
