[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 102249] VIEWING: Add View-> Non-printing Characters for textboxes

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102249

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |vstuart.foote@utsa.edu
           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10
                   |                            |2248
         Depends on|102248                      |
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

--- Comment #3 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu> ---
Whether in the Draw/Impress module, or Writer, or Calc-- a Text Box is a Draw
object held within its anchored Draw frame--it is rendered as BMP meta onto the
document canvas, layered as specified.

While the Text content of the Text Box (or Text annotation onto a Draw Shape)
is technically a Paragraph--it does not have the same methods available to
Paragraph objects on the Writer canvas or within Document Frames on the Writer
canvas.

Display of non-printing characters (returns, line breaks, spaces, tabs,
non-breaking spaces/tabs, etc.) within a Text Box, or the Text annotation of a
Draw Shape, are simply missing method(s) for the class(s).  

It could be implemented, but as Heiko notes--what is the use case? As is you
have immediate feed back on any formatting changes applied to the Text of a
Draw Text Box, or Text annotation of a Draw Shape.  What more is needed that
would aid composition?


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102248
[Bug 102248] VIEWING: Non-printing Characters are not shown in textboxes in
Writer when View-> Non-printing Characters is checked
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