Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Hyperlink Oddity

Hi :)
Also not answering the question but this time not very helpfully either ...

I've never understood why underscores are so popular.  I tend to find they
create all sorts of problems, especially in links or chapter headings.  It
is very hard to see them when the whole link gets automatically underlined
on almost any system by default.  When people 'have to' rewrite or re-key
the link there is often confusion about whether it's an underline,
underscore or empty-space (except that spaces tend to get changed to "%20"
making the whole thing unreadable to almost everyone).  Also when using
"Ctrl and keyboard-arrows" to move through text one-word-at-a-time the
cursor jumps right over underscores as though they were part of the word.
At least they don't often get converted to some sort of coding, unlike
spaces, but normal hyphens don't seem to create any of these problems.

Luckily, for me, Gnu&Linux abounds with file-renamers making it easy for me
to batch-process entire directories/folders full of all sorts of ugliness
(such as inconsistently capitalising .jpg or file-endings, where the format
is the least important thing for me).

Usually i can ignore my pettiness about such issues, luckily!!

Btw the email process converts all letters to lower-case so people can use
capitalisation judiciously to make addresses easier for humans to read.
CamelCase tends to be easier to read than alllowercase, for example;

TomCecf@Gmail.com

or

BridgeWaterMA@PlymouthColony.net

I've just noticed that Chrome seems to convert all upper-case in web-site
addresses to lower-case too but i'm fairly sure Internet Explorer is not
sophisticated enough, unless it's been introduced fairly recently (ie
within the last 5 years or so).  I'm not sure about other web-browsers.

Regards from
Tom :)





On 14 May 2016 at 06:17, gordon cooper <gordon_cooper@kinect.co.nz> wrote:

> Hello Dale,
>                      I have not met this problem (yet!). If you create a
> hyperlink to a pdf document, but without the 'a' unfinished indicator
> I take it that the hyperlink remains unchanged regardless of the
> file being accessed again.  It appears to be an issue with the single
> character. Perhaps if you omitted the final underbar so that the
> link read  8a instead of 8_a. The 'a' could be deleted when the
> document is complete, just as you are doing now.
>
> I know that this does not tell you why this occurs, but it might cure it.
> Am working with hyperlinks while editing multi-lingual translations of
> a system manual and have met several unexpected issues. Yours may
> be yet to come!
>
> Gordon
> Tauranga
> New Zealand.
>
>
> On 14/05/16 08:06, Dale H. Cook wrote:
>
> > I have an odd problem with document hyperlinks in Writer, one which I
> > never experienced when using Open Office or, before that, Word.
> >
> > I have many Writer files containing hyperlinks to PDF documents on my
> > hard drives. The problem only occurs when I create a hyperlink to a
> > document still being added to such as "Dockets_1896-1897_08_a.pdf." The
> > hyperlink looks fine in Writer when I create it, but when I come back to
> > the Writer file some hours or days later the visible hyperlink has changed
> > to "Dockets_1896-1897_08 _a .pdf" where the spaces between "08" and "_a"
> > and between "_a" and ".pdf" are so narrow as to be almost invisible, and
> > where"Dockets_1896-1897_08" "_a" and ".pdf" are three separate hyperlinks,
> > all with the original destination.
> >
> > After finishing the additions to the document I change the filename,
> > destination, and hyperlink to "Dockets_1896-1897_08.pdf" (the "_a" is only
> > there to show that the PDF is not yet complete) and never again have a
> > problem with that hyperlink. What is puzzling is that only some of the
> > hyperlinks with the "_a" suffix suffer from this problem - not all of them.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
> > Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
> > Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net
>
> --
> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> Problems?
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
> deleted

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted