In a message dated 2009.08.15 07:18 -0500, Brian Barker wrote:
After importing a picture to a Writer document, and giving it a
caption, my caption text is preceded by the words "Illustration Number
range Illustration: " It's not clear why I get that nonsense text, ...
It's not exactly nonsense - providing you understand what you are
looking at. The words "Number range Illustration" are the name of a
field and will not appear in the document as printed, but will be
replaced by the actual number of the illustration. Just use File | Page
Preview (or the Page Preview button in the Standard toolbar) to see that
this is so. You can toggle between field names and their values at View
| Field Names (or Ctrl+F9).
Ah! Thanks! Then
"Illustration Number range Illustration: "
becomes, on instantiation,
"Illustration <Illustration number>: "
That's easy enough to understand. But what becomes of " range Illustration"?
... and when I try to edit the text to remove the nonsense, I'm
stymied: ...
I'm surprised by that. I can edit the caption text - that's your real
caption - in place, as well as the initial word "Illustration". You
cannot tinker with the field name, of course, but you can delete the
entire field in ways that you would expect.
I still don't see how to do that - how to select the text to edit.
Trying to click in the caption does not change the cursor to a text
cursor.
Ah! You can do this if you do not have the illustration selected, and
you can do this if you have the illustration selected (so that it shows
the eight green handles) but without the caption selected. But no: you
apparently cannot get at the caption text if you have the illustration
and its caption selected together - so that the green handles span both.
Setting aside the utter lack of intuitiveness in selecting the illustration
without the caption in order to edit the caption... how, precisely, does one
select the illustration without the caption? No matter how I try to select,
it appears that, once a caption is applied, Writer treats it as a part of
the illustration, not separately selectable.
A right click in the caption (or anywhere else in the frame, for that
matter), brings up a context menu which includes "Caption" - but that
does not allow to edit (or even delete) the existing text.
That's because that menu item is - oddly - creating a second caption for
the same illustration, so no: you cannot edit the original caption here.
Yes, I might have been more explicit about that. Does the characterization
"oddly" suggest that you also find it a bug?
John
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