On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:27:49 -0500
Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> > Looks like a bug. Has anyone else seen this?
>
> If it is a bug, it is a bug in Feisty. It sounds like the font
> size is being hard coded. Are you sure that you did not change the
> font size using the Font Size dropdown list next to the Font Name
> dropdown list in the Formating toolbar? I doubt that any changes made
> using this toolbar can be changed by changing the style.
> If you are going to use styles, you need to use the Styles and
> Formatting window only. (F11 opens it.) By only making changes in the
> styles in this window, I can modify the style of any part of my
> document. I only use the formatting toolbar for information.
1) it wouldn't be the first time there's been an incompatibility
between Ubuntu and OOo. However, such are generally pretty rare. In
this case it is more of an annoyance than a showstopper.
2) Yes, I know how I did it and I did it correctly. I've been using OOo
since StarOffice 5.something as my only word processor and I live in
it. I always do my formatting by styles and override with text
formatting only for the occasional word or phrase in italics or some
such. I do not generally use text styles because I seldom have any use
for them. The paragraph in question started like this:
Research Project <-- this ended in Ctrl-Shift (new line)
Design and Implementation
It was originally typed in Default style and it appeared correctly in
Default. I applied Heading style, and quickly realized that the Heading
style was not the way I wanted it. It was 14 points, left justified and
bold. I wanted it centered, 16 points and bold. But before changing the
style I decided I wanted it all on one line, so I deleted the
Ctrl-Shift at the end of the first line. At that point it flowed
together on one line as expected, all still in 14 points, bold, left
justified. Then I opened the Heading style to modify it, made the
changes, and closed the modify style dialog box. When I closed the
modify style dialog box the line became centered and the first part of
the line ("Research Project") went to 16 points, but the remainder of
the line remained at 14 points. Then I tried various things to reset it
to the new Heading style, but nothing would get it to work -- e.g.:
I changed it to Default, and it went to Default, then I changed it to
Heading, and it went back to half 14 points and half 16 points.
I changed it to Default formatting (Ctrl+Shift+space), which did
nothing at all (it should have returned it to Default). I also tried it
from the Format menu but got the same non-results.
I changed it to First Line Indent, which correctly applied First Line
Indent, then to Headline. It went back to half 16 points and half 14
points.
I tried several other similar alternations, but nothing would change
the entire line to 16 points, short of manually applying 16 points from
the formatting toolbar. And after I manually applied 16 points to the
whole line it went to fully 16 points, but when I subsequently changed
to Default and then back to Heading, it went back to half 16 points and
half 14 points.
Finally I just retyped the text on a new line below. This line was set
to Default. After typing the text I applied Heading, and the entire
line correctly went to 16 points, bold, centered. In other words,
whatever got screwed up by deleting the new line (Ctrl+Shift) remained
in that text and the style was never able to override it.
Because of this behavior I wondered if this might be a bug. As for
Ubuntu, anything is possible, but I get kind of tired of everyone
automatically assuming that anything that goes wrong with OOo on Ubuntu
is Ubuntu's fault. In this case, I can't imagine what feature of Ubuntu
could cause something like this.
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