Hi William,
On 12/12/06 01:31, William Alan Yamada wrote:
> This is not an indent specific behavior. If you have two paragraphs A
> and B, backspace at the start of B will join A and B by preserving the
> attributes of B. Delete at the end of A will join A and B, using the
> attributes of A for the joined paragraph. In your scenario, the first
> backspace deletes the indent of paragraph B and the second backspace
> applies the "indent 0" attribute to the merged paragraph. In my opinion
> this is a nice feature, at least if you know how it works ;-).
> Nevertheless, this behavior is discussible, feel free to file a 'request
> for enhancement' for this.
This was discussed over a year ago and I don't think things have
changed. I don't think they've changed because I spent an hour trying to
figure out how to turn this 'nice feature' off. You can turn it off in
Word, and while I've just started using OpenOffice this sort of thing
will drive my crazy.
I guess I don't see how understanding how it works makes it a nice
feature. I would never change the formatting of a paragraph while typing
(I'd change the paragraph's style), and knowing how it works just
removes some of the mystery when the program does something I don't want
it to. It does not remove any of the frustration.
I'm not sure if you are referring to
1. the question of the paragraph style
2. the 'backspace removes indent' feature
My quoted comment only refers to 1: Joining two paragraphs rises the
question which paragraph style should be used for the new, joined
paragraph. And will the new paragraph obtain the hard attributes from A
or B? The current implementation says: It depends on the operation:
Delete or backspace. For me this still is a nice feature. An other
option would be to always let the attributes of A win over B. Would this
be a better solution?
Regards,
Frank
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