https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76310

--- Comment #4 from Mike Kaganski <mikekagan...@hotmail.com> ---
Created attachment 96023
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=96023&action=edit
Valid file with line breaks

(In reply to comment #3)
Well, as to enhancement,

This attached file is standard-conformant. It is produced by a real-life
ODF-compliant software: MSO2013. It cannot be properly read by LO; so it is a
bug. 

Considering that this problem affects compatibility with MSO (see also Bug
56036 for a real-life problem that already has arisen; there will be more, if
ODF gains some popularity - remember GB govt initialive), I suppose that this
may be seen this way:

1. Fix Bug 56036 in an easy way (just replace input newlines with spaces on
open/import, to match current LO policy) - I am not sure if this step is good
one, or if it will be easier than doing right thing from the start. However,
this will allow for correct calculations in open/imported documents. But it
will remove newlines.

2. Fix internal inability to work with newlines (that prevents from reading
this attachment). This is an importans step, that I prefer over step 1. Besides
formal standard compliance, it allows for retaining the existing newlines (even
if it's impossible to add new), and subsequently correct round-trip of
documents, thus removing another reason to consider this suite a second-class
citizen.

3. Allow entering this in UI. Probably only this part could be made
enhancement. However, without previous steps (that are fixing real bugs), this
enhancement is useless.

This division is only meaningful if developer sees it appropriate. If this
could be better fixed in one step, then this problem, imo, cannot be considered
an enhancement as a whole.

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