https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78371
Priority: medium Bug ID: 78371 Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Summary: FORMATTING Add "Clear Direct Character Formatting" function Severity: enhancement Classification: Unclassified OS: All Reporter: msrame...@gmail.com Hardware: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Version: unspecified Component: Writer Product: LibreOffice Hi, I work on translation of the LibreOffice guides to Slovak. I use for that the OmegaT translation tool, because it can read and write odt files. I observe a problem, which can be perhaps solved by adding a new function "Clear Direct Character Formatting" along to the existing "Clear Direct Formatting". The problem: OmegaT (and other similar CAT tolls) breaks text in sentences, which are then translated. It honours formating, which means that the translator sees the formating tags (in OmegaT they are abbreviated e.g., to <f1> text </f1). If there is too much of direct formating, the text becomes untranslatable by CAT tools, because tags appear everywhere and also inside words. This is exactly the case of the LO guides. The remedy for this is to use styles and then to remove the direct formating. The problem is that "Clear Direct Formatting" removes all direct formating - in the case of LO guides it breaks headers, lists etc. The reason may be that the guides were not written "the right way". However, even authors of the LO guides do not use LO "the right way". I think that introduction of the "Clear Direct Character Formatting" (cleaning up stuff only inside paragraphs withou influencing the rest) would solve this problem. It will make translation of odt files by CAT tools possible. I currently use a workaround for that: I unzip the odt file and clean the content.xml file by my own python script. It does not work perfect but still solves the problem. The proposed solution would make possible to translate odt files for all. Thanks for considering this proposal -- Milos -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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