Why is bullet style linked to the next character's style?

[folofol]

Suppose I have this:

• Abc

If I try to set A's style (say to bold red), the preceding bullet will also become bold red. No matter how much I try to "trick" Affinity Publisher, it matches the bullet's style to the next printable character's style. Even if I just want the bullet to stay black & regular-sized.

This seems unfortunate, but should I somehow convince myself it's really a feature?

[walt.farrell]

There's are other topic discussing this, for example this one and this one.

You might try inserting a thin space before the A, or a non-printing glyph as suggested in the second topic above, so that when you select the Abc it won't affect the bullet. I don't think we know for sure yet whether this will eventually be changed, but it does not seem that Serif considers it to be a bug at this point.

[folofol]

Thank you! (Yeah, I should've tried zero-width unicode glyphs. And I missed those threads you helpfully linked to when searching for "bullet".)