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I've had problems with this loss of overlapping styles and I'm afraid my use of them is not due to learned Word behaviours! Typically, I encounter tham with ligatures and old-style figures. I create expert and small caps character tags and use them for the ligatures and numbers. Then, say I need to italicise the book title "Office Workers in 1999". The expert tag for ffi gets overriden and the small caps tag for 1999 does too. I could create separate tags for expert itals and small caps itals, but tags quickly multiply, particularly when you're using optical multiple masters (eg, small caps rom and small caps itals becomes 10pt small caps rom, 10pt small caps itals, 11pt small caps rom, and 11pt small caps itals) and that's just too much tagging to do in the time I usually have available. And if you're using tags to also denote content (eg, a "book title" tag that italicises), this would reduce your ability to pull out complete book titles. 

Cheers, Dominic