https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169426
Bug ID: 169426
Summary: Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer help page:
Alt+Enter description misleading
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
According to the Shortcut Keys for LibreOffice Writer page
(https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/04/01020000.html), one
of the effects of keyboard shortcut Alt+Enter is:
<emph>Paragraph in list</emph>. Inserts a new paragraph within a list without a
bullet or number, while preserving the list’s paragraph formatting. To resume
numbering or bulleting, press <keycode>Enter</keycode> after adding content to
the new paragraph. This shortcut does not work if the cursor is in the very
beginning of a list paragraph.
In fact, this inserts a paragraph (line) break, not (really) a new paragraph.
If a paragraph consists of:
> Two words
…and the cursor is between "Two" and "words", the shortcut will not really
insert a new paragraph, but rather split the existing paragraph in 2.
As for the form, an incomplete sentence like “Paragraph in list.” could be
confusing and should be avoided. Colons are best to isolate context, as
Ctrl+Backspace exemplifies.
Moreover, the sentence "To resume numbering or bulleting, press
<keycode>Enter</keycode> after adding content to the new paragraph." (which was
added in
https://git.libreoffice.org/help/+/9ea21fcc6dca1c2f313b0b7494c00cdd4a42c774%5E%21
) is superfluous and even misleading, suggesting that pressing Alt+Enter would
somehow switch Writer to an alternative mode, which is not the case.
Fourthly, many lists use list markers which are neither bullets nor numbers, so
the description is imprecise.
Fifthly, "while preserving the list’s paragraph formatting" seems superfluous
to me (we do not specify such a thing for Shift+Enter, which does the same
TTBOMK).
Also, I do not speak English natively, but the last sentence sounds a little
strange to me. "IN the beginning" sounds like the beginning of a story, not
something I have seen in this context (technical documentation), where I would
rather expect "at".
Finally, regarding implementation, the last sentence seems to document a bug
which will hopefully be fixed at some point, so it would be best to keep it as
a translatable entity distinct from the rest. I know nothing about LibreOffice
l10n, but that does not seem to be the case if I read correctly.
By the way, ticket #168483 comment #5 contains advice about the placement of
this description (in its last paragraph).
I would therefore suggest:
Inside a list: Split the paragraph in 2, without adding a list element (the
second paragraph will contain the part of the split paragraph which follows the
cursor). Does not work when the cursor is at the start of a paragraph.
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