OpenXML Filter: always expose one of runs with implicit formatting

If we consider an example when there are runs with different formatting, neither of which can be refactored with the paragraph formatting.

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Below is a corresponding document structure:

<w:p>
    <w:pPr>
    <w:rPr>
        <w:sz w:val="28"/>
    </w:rPr>
    </w:pPr>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="26"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">Run 13pt.</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="24"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">Run 12pt.</w:t>
    </w:r>
    <w:r>
        <w:rPr>
            <w:sz w:val="28"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">Run 14pt.</w:t>
    </w:r>
</w:p>

And the current extraction is this:

<g id="1">Run 13pt.</g><g id="2">Run 12pt.</g><g id="3">Run 14pt.</g>

This is a segment that contains positions that are outside of any formatting - e.i. before the first <g>, or between </g> and <g>, or after the final </g>. Thus, it is not very easy to work with such segments for translators.

A better segment would be one in which one of the runs is assumed, and the other is highlighted. For instance:

Run 13pt.<g id="1">Run 12pt.</g><g id="2">Run 14pt.</g>

In this case, the styling of every position in the segment is known. Either the position is inside a tag pair, in which case it has the styling of that run, or it is outside a tag pair, in which case it has the styling of the "implicit" tag pair.

The example document is attached.

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