I concur; LO version 3.4 is utterly useless for any real copyediting
purposes where edit-tracking is desired or necessary. Releasing an alpha
or beta version as if it were a stable release was a terrible marketing
decision.
Perhaps, not enough competent QA folks from OOo have yet defected.
Gary
On 6/12/2011 1:54 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
What I see is a strikethrough but with no text. And rejection of the deletion
leaves it blank than what the original text was. (It also appears that showing
changes is off by default in 3.4.0 but recording changes is on.)
It is (relatively) safe to use LibreOffice 3.3.2. The bug seems to be new in
3.4.0. I haven't checked this with 3.3.3rc1.
- Dennis
PS: In making a sample file to demonstrate this defect, I notice that the
deletion shows as text with a strikethrough at first. It is when I do
anything else that it suddenly changes to just strikethroughs without the text.
I think this is a bug I've seen before but made worse in some way. The bug is
that the subsequent re-rendering of a deletion actually changes it something
else in a way that the original deleted material cannot be recovered by
rejecting the deletion. That gives me some ideas of some test files that
isolate this, though I am not equipped to actually fix the code.
PPS: I sternly object to 3.4.0 not being a stable release and meant to be
treated the same as a beta. This was a terrible move, especially since it was
widely-announced as availability of 3.4 without qualifications. It should have
remained at least 3.4.0rc2 until there was time to discover what regressions
and show-stoppers had arisen. The need for a 3.4 release celebration was not
justifiable under any circumstances. This regression business is very
discouraging.)
-----Original Message-----
From: David Paenson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 10:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki
Thanks Regina,
Just installed LO 3.4 and discovered an enormous bug: in editing modus, i.e.
when correcting someone else's text, so he/she sees the results, deleted
text simply disappears instead of just being overwritten with dashes. So now
I've gone back to OpenOffice 3.2.
Yours
Dave
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