https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125587
Issue ID: 125587
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: Character styles (styles and formatting toolbar) font
tab - confusing and inconsistent behaviour
Product: Writer
Version: 4.1.0
Hardware: PC
OS: Windows XP
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: formatting
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Launch Oo writer and select the text document option. Enter some text and set
the paragraph style to Georgia 16pt say.
Now apply "emphasis" (in the character styles of the styles and formatting
toolbar) to a portion of the text. As might be expected, italics are applied to
the text.
However there is an obvious source of confusion here because the "emphasis"
style specifies "Times New Roman, 12pt, Italic", but only the italic attribute
is being applied. There is nothing in the manual (p. 203 Oo 3.3 writer guide)
or helpfiles to explain this inconsistency.
The "contains" field of the organiser tab (for emphasis") shows the words
"Italic, Italic, Italic." What is the user to make of this? And if the user
alters an attribute in the font tab it causes an extra value to be added to the
"contains" field." Confusing …
Now try the following operations:
After applying the "emphasis" character style to the "text body" text, change
the "emphasis" font to "arial" say. If you now put the caret inside the
affected words and read off the values in the formatting bar you will see that
the font-size reads "16" even though the font-size in the "emphasis" character
style is "12!"
Undo this change and now change the "emphasis" font-size to 20. Put the caret
inside the affected text and read off the values in the formatting bar. This
time the font-size" is correctly given, 20 pts, but the font-style is still
"Georgia" even though the "emphasis" character style is "Times New Roman!"
Now undo this change and alter the "emphasis" typeface to "Bold". Check the
formatting bar again and you will note that it reads "Georgia 16pt" even though
the "emphasis" character style is "Times New Roman, 12 pt!"
Thre is an obvious inconsistency to the behaviour.
IDEA: Could the user interface for the Font tab and the "contains" section" of
the orgnaiser Tab (for character styles, styles and formatting toolbar) be
clarified to make explict WHAT attributes are being applied from the character
style.
IDEA: A check-box, for example on the font tab, that allows the user to specify
that Typeface and type size are to be ignored, and only font style (bold,
italic, normal etc.) applies. This would be the obvious efault settying for
italicised text etc. And the "contains" section needs to be clearer about the
attributes that are being applied: "Italic, Italic, Italic" is unhelpful and
confusing.
The relevant forum entry is at:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72134&p=324598#p324598
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