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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 26 14:25:23 +0000 2008 ------- I would really like to reopen this issue, because the argument put forward for invalidating it is itself not completely valid. The Inserting > Special Characters routine seems to be only means for inserting typographical characters that are not "special" to any particular font, but simply not available on the keyboard : the m-dash, the n-dash, the o-e and a-e ligatures, etc. When I insert these characters, first off, it's a pain to even have to think about the font and to navigate the long list to get the right one -- WHICH IS THE ONE I'M USING. Then, when having changed the paragraph style font (which happens very often), I have to think about going through the whole document to find the little bits and pieces that were explicitly formated in a particular font (typically, this involves, for each instance, selecting and cutting the character(s) and surrounding characters, and then paste special as unformatted -- this gets really laborious, and error prone). The solution seems simple enough: include a "current font" option in the list of fonts in the special character dialog box, or add an additional check box to that effect. The effect would be exactly like paste special > unformatted text. This can't be difficult to implement. Alternately (and at a minimum), in deference to those rare times when one might select a character that cannot be rendered in the current font, have the special character dialog box preselect the same font as the text where cursor is positioned and not insert any formating code with the character if the font isn't changed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
