https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153786
Bug ID: 153786
Summary: paste as unformatted text -- doesn't work as expected
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.6.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
first off, it works...
the problem is "ONLY" that it doesn't actually does what it suggests it's
doing...
As we might all know, a Writer document is actually a zip file, which among
other components, has a "content.xml" -- well this is our document...
this is its "source code"...
this "code" (text with info and tags) is very messy...
which is a bad thing...
this means that the Microsoft's approach is still inherent in Libreoffice, that
is, what matters is what you eventually see on your screen and in your
prints...
But how we achieve this look, this surface, should remain our dirty little
secret... (the developers'),
while the user is being happy with her/his document... that s/he "created)
(only did the typing, it is us who created it! :))
I believe in transparency which HTML5 represents.
More importantly, I believe that we all believe in it ...
ODT docs and the machinery behind should be transparent in that sense...
the text's source code should be clean...
(I know, I know: a document's text can come from very surreal places, and from
a series of various places, different machines, languages settings, vintages,
templates, etc, etc)
But cleanness should be a priority...
Why? Because, for example, messiness simply causes Scribus (a program,
application which deserves respect in terms of compatibility and common
workflow, too) to import text jammed up...
"jamming" only means only that here and there a space is missing...
but when you've been editing a book for weeks, and the text is finished,
it is a surreal situation that you "may have" some minor faults in your
originally almost perfect text document... after importing it...
SO, I think, there should be applicable methods for cleaning the messy source
code.. and one such method could be "paste as unformatted text"...
Imagine that you paste 10 pages like that, and then you have to format
everything from scratch.. It'd be cool!
But... headings and emphases could be kept.. and that would be even more
superb...
Unfortunately, "paste as unformatted text" only means "unformatted for the
appearance"... cause the messy source code is just being pasted over...
later perhaps, similar to "clear all direct formatting",
there could be a tool "clear all formatting"....
BTW: despite using styles, the source code really looks (in some cases) like
directly formatted...
sometimes a space or a letter of a word separately gets a new tag... which is
mess... and style names proliferate wildly... like, ranging from "text style
name: T2" ... to... "T18". within one paragraph... which could be called
mess...
the main problem is that once a letter is separated from a word, it will remain
like that... and the source code will get more and more fragmented by course of
time....
this is why a method of cleaning, or even more methods could be a wonderful
thing... acting against the messy and messier tendency ...
Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy some paragraph from a text...
2. paste it in a new document...
3. open the source code file (context.xml)
Actual Results:
what you see is that broken up words remained as they were in the original
(messed up) source file...
Expected Results:
you should see that pasted unformatted text's source code is CLEAN...
only 2 tags, one at the beginning, one at the end...
broken up words, lonely spaces embraced by tags should all be united in just
one line of text...
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c21113d003cd3efa8c53188764377a8272d9d6de
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
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