Comment 22 for bug 239854

I also want to express my interest in this feature. As others have mentioned, users expect editors to work this way -- not just Word, etc., but even Tomboy and MoinMoin support format combinations like this.

I personally do not feel a need to apply formatting to headings, and respect the "functional" nature of them from a conversion and import/export perspective.

On the other hand, I do think that applying formatting to verbatim is valuable. While it's not a deal-breaker for me, my use case is that I use Zim for research notes, and I often copy output from a terminal into a document as "verbatim" to preserve formatting. However, I regularly would like to highlight particular text or values from the output for reference. "Bold" is one obvious way to do that -- another way would be to change the color or background of the text (a feature that I haven't found yet, if it exists). This is also something that can be done in other editors, so while I respect the underlying philosophy and design that makes this tricky, I don't think that it's that strange of a feature request.