Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document?

On Fri, 17 May 2013, Girvin R. Herr wrote:

> Alan Stern wrote:
> <snip>
> > Here's another odd thing I encountered.  Moving the cursor one
> > character at a time (using the right-arrow key), I find what appears to
> > be two hidden characters: one at the beginning of the readonly field
> > and one at its end.
> >
> > That is, start with the cursor just to the left of the blank space
> > before the "(9)" field.  Pressing right-arrow advances the cursor to
> > the right of the space, leaving it on the left-hand edge of the '('.  
> > Pressing right-arrow again doesn't move the cursor at all.  Pressing it
> > once more advances the cursor between the '(' and '9'.
> >
> > Alan Stern
> >   
> Alan,
> Did you try viewing hidden objects?
> Check the following:
> View -> Field Names
> View -> Nonprinting Characters
> View -> Hidden Paragraphs

I have tried these.  They make no difference.

> Maybe one of those will make your "hidden characters" visible and give 
> you a clue as to what it is doing.

Nope.

> Another more painful option could be to unzip the file and look at the 
> text to see what is there at these "hidden" characters, optionally 
> editing it out manually.

Interesting; I didn't know one could do that.  The content.xml file 
shows the following (the "..." part is where I erased a lot of 
irrelevant material; I also wrapped a couple of long lines):

Normal</text:span>
<text:span text:style-name="T3"> </text:span>
<field:fieldmark-start text:name="__Fieldmark__24_1596095481"
 field:type="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.UNHANDLED">
<field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.code"
 field:value=" ADDIN EN.CITE &lt;EndNote&gt; ... "/>
<field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.id" field:value="81"/>
</field:fieldmark-start>
<text:span text:style-name="T5">(9)</text:span>
<field:fieldmark-end/>
<text:span text:style-name="T1"> </text:span>
<text:span text:style-name="T2">Normal again.

I don't know enough to interpret all that, but clearly there is a field 
of a sort that LibreOffice isn't ready to handle.

Is there some way to get this information from within LibreOffice 
itself?  I would that the field name and/or value should be accessible.

> Third, maybe another ODF processor, such as KDE's editor, Kword, may not 
> support this readonly attribute and allow you to edit it normally.

Maybe.  I don't see where in there the field is marked as readonly.

Alan Stern


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