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!
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