character format application issue

[TJG-JM]

I believe there may be a bug in applying formatting to runs directly. When directly creating character styles and applying them to a run, the document would not look correct. I added a for loop to manually force the style to be respected to resolve, but this seems problematic. If lines 142 & 143 of the attached are commented out, it fails to apply formatting.

code that shows potential bug
##for github check.txt

output w/out commenting:
annotated-procedure.docx

output w/ commenting:
annotated-procedure.docx

associated input files:
original-procedure.docx
previous-entry.docx

[scanny]

Way too much code @TJG-JM. I'm sure this makes sense to you but I can't take the time to sort through it.

Use these guidelines to reduce the code to a minimal reproducible example and I'll take another look.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example