https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159002
--- Comment #5 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4) > The idea with regular expressions in position data Let me make a note first, about terminology. Regular expression is *a mask, against which some other text is matched according to rules*. As such, "regular expression" term is *only* applicable in search context. Here it is *not applicable*. Let us call the possible "\t", "\n" syntax simply "meta-characters". (See also: tdf#153212.) > might be tempting but is quite nerdy. Only experts would know about /t or /n No. I would support introduction of meta-characters support here; and it would be quite wise to do two things: 1. Make sure to use the same meta-characters as in Replace box of Find & Replace dialog (when searching with regular expressions); this condition would also benefit automatically from a potential fixes like "allow Unicode meta-characters in replace box" (tdf#106137). 2. Add a checkbox in the Insert Caption dialog, which would enable meta-characters. This would make it easily discoverable; tooltips could provide more frequent samples, and of course, updated Help would contain the information. > and should better solve the problem with a macro (or insert the tab manually). Oh, I disagree. People already have the Insert Caption dialog simply *to automatize a sequence of the following simple actions*: 1. Put the object into a frame (select the object -> Insert -> Frame); 2. Add a text after (or before) the object; 3. Insert a number range field; ... some more actions. Of course, they may all be implemented using macros... let's remove the function! (And the whole Writer altogether - we may generate ODF directly from Python.) Seriously: this is about "some characters, that one might legitimately want to see in a caption, can't be inserted using the existing dialog. Let's fix this shortcoming". I do not see a real problem in doing this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
