https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151824
Bug ID: 151824
Summary: Mysterious font colours in track changes
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.3.6.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: phileved...@gmail.com
Description:
I choose to set the track changes colours to red for deletions (crossed out)
and blue for additions (underlined). It makes it clearer. It is an option I
have chosen since way back.
Recently I have been getting some of the text which I delete appearing in green
(double crossed out) and the text which I add in green too (double underlined).
This is confusing.
Please can someone help my understand what is happening.
Attached is a pscreen grab of the mess I am getting.
Version: 7.3.6.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.2
Calc: threaded
Steps to Reproduce:
1. turn track changes on
2. delete and add text
3. also cut and paste text
Actual Results:
the text colour is sometimes green and double underlined when added, and
sometimes green and doubled crossed out, as opposed to the colours required in
'Option',
Expected Results:
Deleted text is red and crossed out, added text in blue and underlined (as in
the options)
Reproducible: Sometimes
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
ajlittoz commented when I posted this on Ask LibreOffice:
Recently, Track Changes introduced a new “hint mode” where Writer tries to
guess if words or groups of words have been moved (dragged from one location to
another one). It highlights such sequences in a specific (presently) non-user
controllable way. This might be what you’re experiencing.
In your case, if I’m right, you replaced “for example” with a long sequence
ending in “which she”. One line down, you suppressed “which she”. The heuristic
decided it is a move operation. As you can, the algorithm is not perfect.
I can't work out when the green text comes and when it works as it should. My
problem would be solved it I could turn off the 'Hint Mode'
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.
