Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office quitting

Hi :)
I sometimes use a plain-text editor to paste things into before moving them on into another app.  
It either strips weird coding or displays it so i can see the weirdness and delete bits.  It would 
be nicer if it was easier to just copy&paste without stuffing everything up.  The method of pasting 
unformatted text is quite neat too but using an intermediary can be interesting.  
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sun, 13/11/11, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office quitting
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 13 November, 2011, 23:38

Seamus

On 11/13/2011 05:23 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> On 14/11/11 11:07, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
> > Hello, Jay.
> >
> > I should have said that it’s in Writer only. I’m using Libre Office
> > 3.4.3 (build 302), from the Ubuntu repository. I’m using Gnome Classic,
> > not Unity (and on a fairly dated computer).
> >
> > Today was a disaster, but also may have led to a discovery. Having tried
> > everything else, I resorted to purging Libre Office altogether from my
> > computer and reinstalling from scratch. Same problem.
> >
> > Going on the supposition that the problem was specific to a particular
> > document, I reconstructed the complex document I was working on,
> > starting with a new layout, styles, and all the components copied from
> > various places. That took me most of the day (and I’m not finished yet).
> > Everything seemed to be working properly now; then, when I copied in the
> > text from one particular file (a .docx file that I received from someone
> > else), the problem began again.
> >
> > I noticed what seemed to be a space at the end of each paragraph (which,
> > incidentally, is a very common feature of Microsoft files copied into
> > Open Office or Libre Office). Now, though, the application would quit
> > every time I tried to delete one by backspacing over it or using the
> > delete key. After many failures I managed to get rid of them all (I
> > hope) by selecting “cut” from the menu, or pasting other text over the
> > mystery space.

Thanks for the observation. If you find more information please 
append/submit a bug report. You might try opening the problematic docx 
file by itself in Write when you get a chance and see what happens.

> > I saved one of these characters and pasted it into Character Map to see
> > if I could identify it (and so be able to search for it in the future),
> > but it won’t allow me to paste it in.
> >
> > If this is the source of the problem (and of course I don’t know for
> > certain that it is) I would hardly expect an application to quit because
> > of the presence a particular invisible character.
> >
> > That’s today’s episode of the saga!
> Hi.
> When you paste from the docx, can you try "paste special", unformatted
> text and gain success.
> Can you paste the text from docx into a file, save and view it with
> ghexedit to identify the character.
> You might be able to paste the character in here to find some info.
> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm?q=%C9%AC&preview=entity
>
> steve

Jay Lozier jslozier@gmail.com


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