https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158261
Bug ID: 158261
Summary: UI Can't trust Font feedback field
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.3.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 190895
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One word sample document
In a manuscript I'm writing, I found sections of text with somehow mixed fonts,
after copying text from one document into another.
Normally, if one selects an area of text, the font field in the UI will tell
you the font name, and beside it, the font size. If there has been a change to
the font, or the size, the field helpfully blanks out to indicate there's more
than one.
But it turns out one can't reliably use this to find when the font has changed.
I have attached a one word example file, containing the text:
squalor.
1) Select any of the letters in the word: UI indicates the font is Georgia.
2) Select the period: UI indicates the font is Georgia.
3) Select any span that includes any of the word and the period: font name
blanks (usually means multiple fonts).
Expected result: font field only blanks when there are mixed fonts.
It's not possible to clear direct formatting (if that's the source of the
problem) as then I'd lose all italics.
I wanted to discover what the unwanted font was, but it seems there is no font
change in this case, and I can't rely on the UI to indicate when there really
is a mix of fonts in a span of text. This will make it very hard to clean up
the MS.
My guess is that Writer has constructed text styles with equal definitions but
different names (perhaps as a result of copying between documents), and this is
crippling this aspect of the UI.
Version: 7.5.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9f56dff12ba03b9acd7730a5a481eea045e468f3
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
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