https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158069
--- Comment #3 from Bob English <[email protected]> --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2) > But any reason not to simply use the 'Character...' dialog with its > "instant" preview during font list perusal--against your selected text, > sentence, or paragraph--to adjust the font? > > Provides the same workflow while direct formatting text, or when tweaking an > applied style. With minimal impact on document canvas until you complete > the action in the dialog. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112324 *** Because, it needs too many steps to get to, it's harder to see the impact on the document with whatever else is in there, it's not intuitive, and I can't remember doing it in LibreOffice any other way. So I am either loosing my mind, or it's broken! Why have any drop down selection menu not behave that way? Step selecting from within a font list and seeing the on canvas has pretty much been standard functionality in almost all rich text and graphics applications since the earliest GUI's, and still is! I can and have used the list in the side pane dialog > Properties > Character, the very same way before, but it is showing the same behavior now. BTW: That one should be called FONT, Not CHARACTER, since it's all the same as in the "FONT" toolbar (consistency?), and doesn't really apply to single characters; for that a "Special Character" dialog already exists which doesn't change whole fonts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
