https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101773
Bug ID: 101773
Summary: [UI + UX] - link a frame style to a paragraph style,
double click para-style also applies frame style to
current para
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: difficultyInteresting, needsUXEval, skillUI, topicUI
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In WordXP (and presumably newer) one can create a paragraph style, and one of
the styles tabs is "Frame" (edit style, choose:
Format -> Frame...
Note is WordXP, there is also a "Remove Frame" button.
So, a para style should have "Add frame" and "Remove frame" buttons/ ability/
UI.
Then, when cursor is in an existing paragraph, and I double click the paragraph
style that has an attached frame style, that para style is applied to the text,
and the frame style is also applied to the content of that paragraph - i.e.,
the text of that paragraph is now inside the corresponding frame.
Then afterwards, if my cursor is in the framed paragraph, and I double click a
different para style with no frame attached, that paragraph goes back to a
"normal" non-framed paragraph!
Again, this is how WordXP works. This functionality was expressly added to
MSWord, by Microsoft, at the request of Legal firms (MS wanted to make their
software effective enough to replace the entrenched WordPerfect, and this was a
specific enhancement requested).
This feature makes editing of legal documents, which make extensive use of
marginalia, much easier.
See the attachments to bug #101753 for example files which demonstrate
marginalia in a legal document context.
See also bug #62071, and especially bug #101765, which both relate quite
closely to this bug.
Finally, there is a fundamental UX issue that arises - connecting styles, e.g.
para style with character style. Similarly when a table is constituted a para,
or a list, and someone assumes that will be treated as a para and allowed to be
"double clicked" by a para style into an attached frame (as above). Similarly
list styles and character styles - each element of the list where styling is
applicable, should just be a link to a character style.
This is subroutineing, or the DRY or Don't Repeat Yourself principle.
Because of my volunteer work, this bug is considered by its author as priority
"high", but he awaits the wisdom of a more experienced bug curator :)
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