https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75696
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 75696
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: FORMATTING: Format Paintbrush does not work
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: duanpa...@gmail.com
Hardware: Other
Whiteboard: BSA
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.2.1.1 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
Problem description:
Test Environment:
Debian Wheezy 7.4,
MS Windows XP
Tested versions:
4.2.1.1 (bad)
4.2.0.2 (bad)
4.0.6 (bad)
3.5.4.2 (better but still with some inappropriateness)
In my tests, most functions of Format Paintbrush in Writer 4.0.6 and above do
not work.
While it is better in 3.5.4.2, it also gave me many surprises, compared to MS
Word 2003, especially when copying character attributes such as Italic or
underline to default format text back and forth.
The behaviors of Format Paintbrush is defined completely in the following
document, isn't it?
Page 180 to 183 of
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/a/ac/IG40-ImpressGuideLO.pdf
Steps to reproduce:
1. Do some tests according to Table 6 and Table 7 in page 180 of the document
mentioned above.
Current behavior:
Chaos!
1. Paragraph formats cannot be applied.
2. Only some character formats can be applied correctly, but not all are
correct, for example, in some cases character format with small font size
cannot be copied to the text with larger font size.
Expected behavior:
Paragraph formats and character formats can be copied correctly.
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NOTES
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What are the standard behaviors?
Is there any document that defines the behaviors of Format Paintbrush in more
detail?
I am still not very clear about it. For example, should underline and Italic
attributes be copied or not; what if we want to copy a normal character format
without underline to text with underline? For this, Writer will give us a big
surprise although we cannot say it is totally wrong! In MS Word, the related
functions are more intuitive and clean.
Should the behaviors in MS Word be the standard? I think MS Word does much
better than LO now in this function.
Detail standard can help us set up complete test cases. Once the standard is
very clear, I think the programming logic should not be that hard and chaotic.
Operating System: All
Version: 4.2.1.1 release
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