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<styleStore>
   <styles>
       <style>
          .......
       </style>   <rules>
   </styles>
   <rules>
       <rule>
                .......
             </rule>
          </rules>
       </style>
   </styles>
</styleStore>

Multiple stores might be loaded at once: System Store, Personal Store, Group Store, Experiment Store. Their information is grouped and managed by a #Style Registry

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It should be possible to define rules on how to attach a style to a particular plot object. Multiple rules might be applied to a given style. It should be possible to apply rules to:

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A style registry combines the styles and rules from different style stores and provides the right set of style styles (with the appropriate order) for a given plot object.

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We have to define the order in which the styles are applied to an object.:

• passed style (when plotting)
• explicit in annotation (like labels)
• implicit:
  • action
  • category
  • plot order
  • path
  • type

Style Editor

GUI front end for viewing and editing individual styles or combinations of styles.
We already have a first version of the style editor. We need to add the possibility to view the information contained in a style registry, i.e. the chain of styles contributing to a given object and the set of rules that have contributed to it.

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