Multiple Paragraph Styles / "Add-On" Styles

Not exactly sure how to clearly describe what I'm after but I'd love to see if Adobe could incorporate this feature.
I'd love to have an "add on" style where I could apply a paragraph style and any number of "add on" paragraph styles to it.
For example, say I have three different styles and I need to have the same styles but with a different size. That would require me creating six styles. I'd love to be able to set a style and then an "add on style" for the size, which would reduce the number of styles I had to define, so in this case, the three styles and a fourth "add on style" for the size.
In some cases like the one above I can use character styles but in a specific document I'm after I have several different paragraph styles requiring different "space after" amounts and I have to define many styles than I'd ideally like. Also it would be useful to be able to just click into the paragraph and add "add-on" styles to it.
Your thoughts?
R

For me more important would be the user defined grid unit which could be used as the unit in defining interline, space before, space after etc.
For example You have the layout based on interline baseline grid equal to 14 pt. So every space before, space after etc. you define as the part of you grid, for example 14/2 pt or 14/3 pt ect.
When you decide to change inteline grid form 14 pt to 13.5 pt you must change every space after, and every interline etc. manually.
If you will have the a gid unit and ability to define interline and spacing as a part or as a multiplication of the grid unit it would be only one shot to change all layout.

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Revision: 11490
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-05 17:34:58 -0800 (Thu, 05 Nov 2009)
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Add accentColor style. This color is used to tint "emphasized" buttons, and as the color for slider track highlighting.
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