Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

Tom,

yes, I switch off bold.  What is not clear to me at all in Writer (and in
Word) is to what character the codes switching on and off bold etc. are
attached.  I write every now and then texts with mathematics in them and
variable names are always in italics.  Sometimes I want to change a name,
say from x (italic) to ax (italic).  The way I did it in WordPerfect was to
put the cursor before the x and type an a - very easy.  In Writer you
cannot do that, as you get a normal a and not an italicised one.  I would
then guess that the on and off codes are stuck to the next character, which
might explain the behaviour mentioned by the OP.  I doubt somehow that this
is a bug.

Graham

On 4 November 2014 09:36, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Ahh, you reminded me!  Yes i used to like that feature of Wordperfect a
> LOT too.  With Writer and Word i've always tended to switch on the
> backwards P to show all non-printing characters.  It doesn't go quite as
> far as Wp did but it's still a huge help.
>
> Errr, most people seem to hate seeing those characters and seem to think
> Writer is broken when they see them on my screen or see it as proof that
> Writer is unusable.  So i have to switch them off a lot of the time, when
> working with others :(
>
> You seem to be the first person saying that you have seen the odd
> behaviour in other versions of LibreOffice.  Are you sure you switched Bold
> off?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> On 4 November 2014 07:49, Graham Luffrum <grhmlffrm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I seem to recall that this has always been the case, at least under Linux
> > Mint with various versions of LibreOffice.  Interestingly, if on the
> > second
> > line one puts some text (not in bold as one would expect) and then do
> > newline and move the cursor back up to before the text on line two it
> > shows
> > bold as being off.  (I have to say that one thing which I miss in Writer
> > and also in Word, when I used it, is the approach that WordPerfect used
> > (or
> > maybe still does if it still exists) whereby one could see the codes that
> > switched bold, and underlining etc. on and off.  One could then see
> > exactly
> > where the bolding started and stopped.)
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > On 4 November 2014 01:17, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have verified this in 4.4.0.0 alpha and 4.3.2.2 under Fedora 21
> > >
> > > I can also see that the problem is NOT apparent under XP on 4.2.0.4.
> > >
> > > What OS are you using?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >
> > > On 04/11/14 10:41, jerryvb wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have found a strange action by Writer. I think it might be a bug, but
> > > > I'm
> > > > not sure. At the moment I'm using LibreOffice Writer 4.2.6.3. But, I
> > have
> > > > verified this also in 4.3.1.1, 4.3.1.2, 4.3.2.2, and 4.3.3.2.
> > > >
> > > > In a Writer text document, on a blank line, do this:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Turn on Bold either by Ctr+B or by toolbar button.
> > > > 2. Type some text in bold font.
> > > > 3. Before pressing Enter, Type Ctl+B to turn bold off.
> > > > 4. Press Enter two times.
> > > > 5. Press the Up arrow one time.
> > > > 6. Look at the Bold toolbar button, Bold will be back on.
> > > >
> > > > I just tested LibreOffice 3.5.4.2, and OpenOffice 4.3.1, both of those
> > do
> > > > not act this way.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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