https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164668
Bug ID: 164668
Summary: Alphabetical index is buggy
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Bugs concerning alphabetical index
The set of procedures of inserting a field in the text for entry in the
alphabetical index, including its dialogue boxes, and for generating an
alphabetical index are replete with bugs.
I. The dialog box 'Insert index entry'
(1) I mark a string in the text and press ALT-i, ALT-x, ALT-i (Insert index
entry) to mark it as an entry for the index. It is copied into the field
'Entry' of the dialogue box without being trimmed. Consequently, this entry of
the Alphabetical index will be flanked by a blank or a punctuation mark and
will constitute a separate entry beside the same item in pure form.
(2) I mark two strings of text for entry in the index which only differ by
initial capitalization. The check box 'Match case' is not marked. Nevertheless,
these two entries are not merged, but printed separately in the Alphabetical
index. This is unexpected and irritating.
(3) In the field 'Entry', I enter a new item. In the field '1st key', the last
entry of the accumulated list of 1st keys is shown as 1st key for the new
entry. Since I do not want it, I have to delete it.
(4) The three fields 'Entry', '1st key' and '2nd key' are in countericonic
order if compared with the (sensible) order in which they are printed in the
alphabetical index: here, the order is '1st key' - 'Entry'. Thus, apparently
'1st key' means 'Main entry' and 'Entry' means 'Subentry'.
The order and names of these fields should consequently be:
'Main entry'
'1st level subentry'
'2nd level subentry'.
(5) The buttons 'Insert' and 'Close' are in the wrong order. The button 'Close'
must be the last one.
(6) The letter by which the button 'Insert' may be presssed is 'n'. It must be
'i', as in all the other buttons with this function.
II. The dialog box 'Edit index entry'
(7) 'Close' must be the last button.
III. Accessing index fields
I mark a string in the edited file and trigger 'Insert index entry'. The
selected word is offered for Entry. If I accept it, the selected string in the
text gets a grey background, with the consequence that it can be right-clicked
as a whole. Okay.
(8) If I write anything different in the Entry field, my selection of a string
in the file is ignored; it gets no gray shading. This happens even if my entry
differs from the selected string only by initial capitalization or if the
selected string is in the '1st key' field instead of the 'Entry' field.
Instead, the algorithm stipulates the position preceding the string in question
as the insertion point for the field and marks it by half a blank space with
gray background.
If later I want to access this field to edit it, hitting the half blank space
with the cursor is a test of patience. The clickable area must be much wider.
(9) If the index field has been inserted in a table cell, there is no way to
right-click it, i.e. the index field cannot be accessed at all.
(10) Index fields are displayed by the same grey shading which is used for
other field types. Consequently, if an index field coincides with, or is
immediately adjacent to, another field, it is indiscernable. Use a different
color for the shading.
IV. Generation of Alphabetical Index
(11) If the index field has been inserted in an automatically numbered heading,
the index entry is sometimes (not reliably reproducible) generated with the
number preceding it, which is not wanted. As a result, the most important
candidates for entries in the alphabetical index, viz. chapter headings, cannot
be used for this purpose.
(12) The page numbers printed in the index have the same referential function
as the page references inserted by ALT-i, ALT-r, 'Refer using page number'.
Like these, they should work as hyperlinks. They are, however, dead.
(13) In the style 'Index', font size should be 90%.
(14) The style 'Index 2' inherits from the style 'Index'. Correct. The style
'Index 1' does not. Wrong.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mark a text string in the document.
2. Insert - Table of Contents and Index - Index Entry
3. Edit 'Entry' field.
Actual Results:
All the results specified in the 'Description' box.
Expected Results:
More systematic and user-friendly interface.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
All of the above bugs concern the same module of LO Writer. I join them in a
single report to alleviate the task of the developer occupying himself with
them. If anybody thinks this report must be converted into fourteen separate
bug reports, please feel free to do so.
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