Paste bugs / feature-requests

[Tom_Davies]

Hi

Have people here noticed that copy&paste gives smaller font-size than the
original? I think this is wider than just LibreOffice and is cross-platform.
Seems to be affecting me on Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and Xp? This bug-report says
it's only when using the menu but i think it does the same with
keyboard-shortcuts too.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38195

Also when you paste it normally tries to use the original document's formatting
rather than the formatting of the "target" document (the one that you are
pasting into). I hadn't thought abolut it as it seems to happen with every app
in every OS I've used since copy&paste first appeared. It's only just now that
i'm older that it seems a weird default. There is always "Paste Special" but i
think most people just edit the text after pasting and we are all so used to it
that it doesn't seem odd. I think there is a bug-report / feature request that
LO allows the default forrnatting to be configurable.

Regards from
Tom

[jeanweber]

I haven't noticed the "smaller font size" issue, but I have noticed
that when some (but not all) people edit text in the OOo/LibO user
guides, then the inserted text acts as if it is manually formatted
text. It looks fine, but if a new template is applied that changes the
font or the type size used in the paragraph styles, some words remain
in the old font/size. I notice this mainly in edits by people who are
likely to be using the British or German versions of the program (the
files were, in most cases, created and maintained using the US-EN
version). I haven't taken the time to try to work out what is going on
or file a bug report.

--Jean

[Tom_Davies]

Hi
Thanks. When i edit documents in the outside world i tend to use the backward P
to show formatting which often flags-up weird hidden things that most people
wouldn't notice. I'm not sure it would help with that but thanks for the
warning!
Regards from
Tom

[Gary_Schnabl]

An editor, author, or reviewer can avoid being concerned with formatting issues by simply pasting the copied text from the clipboard with the unformatted paste--Ctrl+Shift+V or from the Paste Special menu. Then, the paragraph style (and, sometimes, the character style) at the paste location governs the formatting. And, of course, one can easily reformat the text in the usual manner after doing the unformatted paste.

The unformatted paste is most useful when pasting text from other applications.

Gary