Bug 98273

Summary: Wish: adding content of a reference shouldn't be formated
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Alexander Nolting <a.nolting>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: minor CC: ilmari.lauhakangas, libreoffice-ux-advise
Priority: medium Keywords: needsUXEval
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Alexander Nolting 2016-02-29 13:51:00 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build Identifier: LibreOffice 5.1.0.3

If you create reference to a formatted text and adding the content of this reference in your document by referring to the text content of this refernce it should not copy all the formatting or you should be able to use the command "delete direct formatting" without falling back to the base formatting template but down to the formatting of this specific line or paragraph.

Giving you an example: I have a paragraph formatted by changing the font to Nuro for a document which was originally created under Winword 7 where the default font on the windows platform was Times New Roman.

Now I'm creating a a reference on a text formatted in bold and background color with 20% grey. Next I add a reference to the text content of this reference in my paragraph. The bold and background format is copied. Which may make sense for some situations. If I'm now remove the formatting by selecting "Remove Formatting" from context menu after I selected the reference the font face falls back to Times New Roman.

So for me coming up two different ideas of handling this situation: one is that it is possible to choose if you want to copy everything incl. formatting or adding only the non-formatted text value of the reference. In this case the formatting of the line/paragraph should be take place.

Reproducible: Always




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Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-03-17 11:33:52 UTC 
UX: any ideas about the best way to implement this?
Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-08-25 05:49:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2016-09-21 11:08:20 UTC 
Clear direct formatting should fall back to the standard style, yes. But please upload an example so we can talk about the same thing.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2017-01-03 16:17:56 UTC 
Unclear bug report. Please reopen if needed - and add an example.
Comment 5 Alexander Nolting 2017-01-03 17:51:14 UTC 
Hi Heiko,

it is more a wish then a real bug. Please read again my opening comment.

Copying the formatting style of a referenced text doesn't make much sense to me. I would like to see an option to do so or that the formatting style of the line where the reference is added take place.

Regards
Alex
Comment 6 Heiko Tietze 2017-01-03 19:26:02 UTC 
(In reply to Alexander Nolting from comment #5)
> it is more a wish then a real bug. Please read again my opening comment.

Unfortunately we neither have a category wishes nor elves to fulfill :-)

Seriously, I don't understand what you mean with format and reference (there are a plenty of those). That's why I asked for an example to illustrate the issue. And since you didn't reply, and no one else, I closed the ticket. Would be happy to reopen, though.