https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156542
Bug ID: 156542 Summary: FORMATTING - Writer applies inconsistent auto-correction to hyphenation as punctuation. Product: LibreOffice Version: 6.4.7.2 release Hardware: All OS: Linux (All) Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: medium Component: Writer Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: sad_bu...@hotmail.com Description: When writing a block of text and wanting to punctuate it with a pair of hyphens, writer will correctly replace the first interest hyphen [entered as a minus sign] to a hyphen, but will ignore the second. Consider:- This is, as you might imagine, rather annoying. This is - as you might imagine - rather annoying. With Writer, the first hyphen in the second line of text above will be amended from a regular minus sign to a formal hyphen... but the second on [in the example the one between "imagine" and "rather", remains as a minus sign. Writer should be able to tell that this is grammatical punctuation and correct consistently... Steps to Reproduce: 1.Simply enter any sentence that uses a pair of hyphens as punctuation 2. If using the minus sign on the keyboard, note the auto-correct of the first instance and nothing happening with the second 3.Issue is 100% repeatable Actual Results: I observe the first hyphen being auto-corrected by Writer from a short, thicker dash [the minus sign] to a slightly elongated and thinner dash - a textual hyphen. Expected Results: I would like to see both submitted values treated consistently, ideally with both being converted from the mathematical minus sign to the textual hyphen. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: I am not sure if the components involved are going to let me do this, but I'm going to try and copy and paste, in to this text box, the two character [correctly transformed and incorrectly left as-is], as auto-edited by Writer. The correctly converted character is "–" The incorrectly ignored character is "-" On my screen, the above examples are visibly different. I'm hoping you might know how to reverse engineer this text back to the relevant UTF-8 character... I don't know how! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.