Tom, yes, I switch off bold. What is not clear to me at all in Writer (and in Word) is to what character the codes switching on and off bold etc. are attached. I write every now and then texts with mathematics in them and variable names are always in italics. Sometimes I want to change a name, say from x (italic) to ax (italic). The way I did it in WordPerfect was to put the cursor before the x and type an a - very easy. In Writer you cannot do that, as you get a normal a and not an italicised one. I would then guess that the on and off codes are stuck to the next character, which might explain the behaviour mentioned by the OP. I doubt somehow that this is a bug.
Graham On 4 November 2014 09:36, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Ahh, you reminded me! Yes i used to like that feature of Wordperfect a > LOT too. With Writer and Word i've always tended to switch on the > backwards P to show all non-printing characters. It doesn't go quite as > far as Wp did but it's still a huge help. > > Errr, most people seem to hate seeing those characters and seem to think > Writer is broken when they see them on my screen or see it as proof that > Writer is unusable. So i have to switch them off a lot of the time, when > working with others :( > > You seem to be the first person saying that you have seen the odd > behaviour in other versions of LibreOffice. Are you sure you switched Bold > off? > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 4 November 2014 07:49, Graham Luffrum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I seem to recall that this has always been the case, at least under Linux >> Mint with various versions of LibreOffice. Interestingly, if on the >> second >> line one puts some text (not in bold as one would expect) and then do >> newline and move the cursor back up to before the text on line two it >> shows >> bold as being off. (I have to say that one thing which I miss in Writer >> and also in Word, when I used it, is the approach that WordPerfect used >> (or >> maybe still does if it still exists) whereby one could see the codes that >> switched bold, and underlining etc. on and off. One could then see >> exactly >> where the bolding started and stopped.) >> >> Graham >> >> On 4 November 2014 01:17, Tim Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have verified this in 4.4.0.0 alpha and 4.3.2.2 under Fedora 21 >> > >> > I can also see that the problem is NOT apparent under XP on 4.2.0.4. >> > >> > What OS are you using? >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > >> > On 04/11/14 10:41, jerryvb wrote: >> > >> >> I have found a strange action by Writer. I think it might be a bug, but >> >> I'm >> >> not sure. At the moment I'm using LibreOffice Writer 4.2.6.3. But, I >> have >> >> verified this also in 4.3.1.1, 4.3.1.2, 4.3.2.2, and 4.3.3.2. >> >> >> >> In a Writer text document, on a blank line, do this: >> >> >> >> 1. Turn on Bold either by Ctr+B or by toolbar button. >> >> 2. Type some text in bold font. >> >> 3. Before pressing Enter, Type Ctl+B to turn bold off. >> >> 4. Press Enter two times. >> >> 5. Press the Up arrow one time. >> >> 6. Look at the Bold toolbar button, Bold will be back on. >> >> >> >> I just tested LibreOffice 3.5.4.2, and OpenOffice 4.3.1, both of those >> do >> >> not act this way. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/ >> >> LibreOffice-Writer-Bold-activates-by-itself-tp4127860.html >> >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- >> > unsubscribe/ >> > Posting guidelines + more: >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> > deleted >> > >> > >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
