Bug 103851

Summary:	add a "Capitalize first letter in lists" option and turn it off by default
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) <samuel.mehrbrodt>
Component:	LibreOffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	barta, cno, heiko.tietze, mentoring, rob51, samuel.mehrbrodt
Priority:	medium
Version:	Inherited From OOo
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Bug Blocks:	103341

Description Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-11-11 08:41:42 UTC

I suggest to disable the Autocorrect option "Capitalize first letter of each sentence" by default (meaning it can be enabled back by the user).

Personally I find this confusing more often than helpful, especially when working with Impress. There you often have bullet point lists that start with lower case letters where you don't want a capitalized letter at the start, and it's very annoying (and non-obvious) to correct that manually.

Hence my suggestion to disable this by default.

Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2016-11-11 12:43:19 UTC

While I disagree with the idea to disable capitalization in general I faced the trouble with lists too. So why not have another option "[ ] Capitalize first letter in lists"? Which is off by default, independently from the sentence option.

Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2016-11-12 08:03:46 UTC

mwah. what to think of this..
talking about wishes, I would prefer:
- smart popup the first time explaining what happens and allowing to go to settings;
- separate settings for Calc and Writer (and ...)
  (thought we already had an issue for that, but it must have been AutoSpell that
   I'm confused with..) >> see bug 103882

Comment 3 Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2016-12-02 08:15:47 UTC

(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> So why not have another option "[ ] Capitalize
> first letter in lists"? Which is off by default, independently from the
> sentence option.

Sounds good to me. I like this suggestion more than the popup Cor suggested.

Comment 4 tommy27 2016-12-23 05:18:06 UTC

(In reply to Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) from comment #3)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> > So why not have another option "[ ] Capitalize
> > first letter in lists"? Which is off by default, independently from the
> > sentence option.
> 
> Sounds good to me. I like this suggestion more than the popup Cor suggested.

+1. edited summary.

Comment 5 Rob Lewis 2017-07-22 17:26:08 UTC

It should be possible to disable auto-capitalization of the first letter of text in Calc cells.

Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2018-09-11 09:33:45 UTC

Removing needsUX since input has been given. I wonder if such an option is an easy hack.

Comment 7 lomacar 2020-09-17 00:20:54 UTC

I like the suggestion, and while you are at it, have the same option for tables.

Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2022-05-24 11:15:50 UTC

Samuel: Seeking for a code pointer. Guess the auto correction is done in SvxAutoCorrect::DoAutoCorrect() which could take another bool bIsList. But the method is called from editeng's ImpEditEngine::AutoCorrect() where I don't know whether the current selection is a list or not. Any idea?