https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122964
Bug ID: 122964
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Export to Rich Text File changes body text
Product: Writer
Version: AOO 4.0.0
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: critical
Priority: P3
Component: editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Created attachment 81256
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Corrupted version of my text. Original text pasted in main descrip. box
A rich-text version of a document I was submitting for publication changed
several words, omitted another and added some extraneous text.
All the altered text appear to have been words marked for auto-correction that
were in fact spelled correctly.
- "Ald." became "Al"
- "Gord" became "God"
- "loosey goosey" became "loose goose"
- My e-mail address turned into the word "unmediated"
Original text pasted below; corrupted RTF file is attached.
Thank you & please address promptly.
Ricky Leong
Calgary Sun
For Calgary residential property owners, these are truly taxing times.
Members of your city council have authorized a compound increase of more than
32% in property taxes since 2011.
Many of our aldermen would argue the successive rate increases were essential.
Ald. Gord Lowe, who's retiring from civic politics at the end of his term, told
the Sun that as far as he knows, Calgarians are demanding services and yet no
one seems to want to pay for it.
“Calgarians are tax averse yet they not only want their services but
executive-class services,” he said.
We may be demanding more services.
However, that does not exclude the idea we may need to have fewer of other
kinds of services, nor the idea we may need to do things differently.
The city often choses to eyeball your wallet before turning inward for
efficiencies.
And nothing stops the city from saying no from time to time.
Lowe also said even without growth in city services, we'd have to pay higher
taxes because of inflation.
True, although the definition of inflation is a touchy subject for some at city
hall.
The benchmark reference for inflation, Statistics Canada's Consumer Price
Index, is objective but apparently substandard in the eyes of the City of
Calgary (and many other municipalities in Canada, I should point out).
It is ignored in favour of an in-house, loosey goosey indicator called the
Municipal Price Index, a measure of inflation based on some independent
criteria but mostly on the city's own behaviour and expectations.
For example, if Calgary intends to hand a wage increase to its unions, that
will figure into the MPI as a rise in the price of doing city business.
I didn't pick that item at random: Payroll consumes more than half of the
city's budget and city hall has the ability to exercise as little or as much
restraint as it desires when it comes to negotiating pay with its workers.
What the number crunchers at city hall have done is truly brilliant, from a
public relations standpoint: They've crafted a believable statistic that can be
used, continually and with great dependability, to make their case for the city
being chronically underfunded and needing more revenues from you and other
levels of government.
You can see the power of MPI as the City of Calgary makes return visits cap in
hand to taxpayers, the province and the feds for ever-larger sums of money.
But you can also see the potential for MPI to be abused.
The Calgary Chamber certainly thinks so.
In a written submission to city hall during municipal budget discussions at the
end of last year, the Chamber urged the City of Calgary to change the way it
calculates its MPI.
“Indexing expenditure or revenue increases to the Municipal Price Index (MPI)
is faulty,” the document states. “Doing so abdicates the city’s responsibility
to control costs and could lead to the city’s revenue needs exceeding
residents’ capacity to pay.”
Far from being a useful tool to help guide this city's budget process, MPI is
an instrument of misdirection purposefully created to take the hard work out of
budgeting.
It is designed to placate any taxpayer, alderman or any other critic who dares
to complain about bean counters not doing enough to keeps costs under control.
It is an insidious piece of statistical trickery that must be expunged from
Calgary's financial planning process.
Eliminating the MPI is one small step on the way to restoring accountability
and objectivity in drawing up Calgary's budgets — and pinning down much of your
money the city truly needs to take care of the people's business.
[email protected]
On Twitter: @SUNRickyLeong
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