https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164588
--- Comment #16 from Fabrice <[email protected]> --- > (In reply to Fabrice from comment #14) > > Denying evidence, as shown by numerous screenshots, does not help settling > > the matter. > > The paragraph marks ARE selectable, and Writer's behavior goes against > > elementary logic. Like it or not, a user who WANTS to work with visible > > paragraph marks must NOT get confused. > > Paragraphs are selectable. The markers are indicators of paragraphs. So the > markers are not selectable any more than, for example, comment markers. They > are visual helpers. Other markers, eg. comments markers, do NOT carry any style information from the current text. So your comment leads to one of my alternatives: simply do NOT allow a single paragraph marks to be selectable. But this will likely raise other consistency questions, eg. in case of a selection comprising characters and one or several paragraph marks. I am still in favor of the other alternative: allow any selection, and display the style information consistently. That also has the advantage, when the selecting a single ΒΆ, to be able to retrieve (and potentially reproduce) the styling of the PARAGRAPH, not of the neighboring character which may different from the paragraph in font and spacing. That feature is present in MS Word, and proves a great help in precise document layouts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
