Reply To: paragraph styles not behaving

Uh, it seems you missed the sub-question in my question. How would it be possible to apply two paragraph styles to just a single paragraph? A paragraph style, by definition and by purpose, applies formatting to an entire paragraph. Applying “a second” paragraph style removes all formatting of the previous one and replaces it with its own.

You might want to take a look at character styles — now those are meant to be applied to parts of a paragraph.