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I've got a block of paragraphs, all of the same style. If I define the
style to include a rule above, only the topmost paragraph in the block
gets the rule. Likewise, a definition for a rule below gets applied
only to the bottommost paragraph gets it. If I insert some other
paragraph, with a different style, between any two of the paragraphs
in the block, then it's as if I have two blocks (which I do) and the
topmost paragraph of each block gets the rule.

The behaviour is as if the separate paragraphs were only separated by
a soft return (line-feed), not a hard return. But I'm showing the
hidden paragraph markers and clearly the separate lines in the blocks
are separate paragraphs.

Is this behaviour normal? If not, does anyone know what to do about
it? I need each paragraph so-styled to have a rule above, not just the
first in any contiguous set.

TIA
--larry