https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125587
--- Comment #2 from Oana Casapu <[email protected]> --- I’ve investigated this issue on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and OO Writer *stable version 4.1.1, AOO411m6(Build:9775) *nightly build, version 4.2.0, AOO420m1(Build:9800) - Rev. 1651106 With the current “Font tab” design for “Characters Styles”, the user can’t say which character attributes are being applied and which are being ignored. This problem can be replicated for all the “Character Styles” in “Styles and Formatting”. This problem can be isolated by going though the cases bellow: I. Even though by default the “Contains” section in Organizer tab contains only Italics, the “Fonts” tab shows all the 3 attributes of the “Emphasis” style as selected: Times New Roman + Italic + 12. As a regular user I might not check the “Contains” section in “Organizer” and expect my text to be formatted with Times New Roman + Italic + 12 as I set in Fonts tab. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a new document and insert text 2. Select the text and set the font type and size (e.g. ArialMT 14) 3. Open the “Styles and Formatting” window(press F11) 4. Click on the “Character Styles” icon 5. Click on “Emphasis” 6. Right-click -> Modify 7. Go to “Font” tab 8. Select the text you want to emphasize and click on “Emphasis” 9. Check the font and the size for the emphasized text in the Formatting toolbar Screenshot: default Font options for emphasis.png ODT file attached: default Font options for emphasis II. Attempting to select the font size that is selected by default in “Fonts”, will not be applied. If I want to set font 12 as the default font is, I will have to set first font size 13 and then modify it to 12. This is a side effect of the fact that the selected by default attributes “font” and “size” are not actually applied. Steps to reproduce this are: 1. Modify the default “Emphasis” attributes by selecting again the font size to 12 that is by default selected but not applied 2. Click OK 3. Apply “Emphasis” to a text that originally has font size 14 4. Check the applied style attributes in Format Toolbar and notice that the text doesn’t have font size 12 5. Modify again the “Emphasis” attributes by first selecting font size to 13 then 12 and hit OK 6. Check the text marked as emphasized Obs. 1: Character Styles are inconsistent with Paragraph Styles in OO. While applying “Emphasis” (from “Character Styles”) doesn’t apply the default selected font and size, applying “Quotation” (from “Paragraph Styles”) applies the default font size and type: Times New Roman + size 12. I would expect Character Styles to work the same way as Paragraph Styles. Attached is how the Paragraph Styles work in OO writer: Paragraph Style in OO.png Obs. 2: “Emphasis” in MS Word has default font type and size applied when selecting a text and clicking on “Emphasis”. They are “Based on: Default Paragraph Font”. Please see the screenshot “how emphasis works in word” Obs. 3: The documentation on Character Styles (Emphasis) can be found at: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Using_character_styles There’s no explanation how the default font and size should work for Character Style or that they are different from Paragraph Style. I can see two ways of avoiding this confusion: 1. Don't show attributes as selected unless they are applied. 2. Have the same approach like Word or Writer - Paragraph Styles. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue. You are watching all issue changes.
