Re: [libreoffice-website] Does Libre have a "reveal codes" function, as does WordPerfect?

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:57 PM, RJ gardner <rjgardner@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Saturday afternoon, Nov. 28th USA
>
> Friends,
>
> (My question is being sent here because the lengthy list for contacts on the Contribute tab is 
> confusing to me, with "+subscribe" in the email list and the global-ness of my email address.)

Hi RJ,
The best places for questions about LibreOffice are the
Ask.LibreOffice.org site, the users mailing list, and the #libreoffice
IRC channel. For specific enhancement requests, we'll usually point
you at the bugtracker, but feel free to ask for some guidance :-)

> My Question:
>
> I have been using Libre for a while now, alternating with my Word Perfect ver. X6, and I have 
> found WP to have an advantage over all other word processors I have used, and that is their 
> “reveal codes” (Alt-F3). This feature / function lets me see and move or remove what is not 
> wanted or what is causing page format problems, etc., and it also avoids burdening the file-size 
> with more “code” to cover up the problem than is necessary (i.e., pasting-in text which finds its 
> way into a larger size or different font), and without seeing these hidden codes, I cannot find 
> where the “emphasis” or columns or margins, etc., begins and ends in those hidden codes.

Reveal Codes is a neat feature, to be sure! We have an enhancement
request filed here:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002

> I looked at the Question and its Answer on 
> http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/31932/writer-paste-two-tables-on-one-page-or-reveal-codes/ 
> but that only recommeded a Reveal Codes function be considered.

It looks like Regina suggested that some of the information about the
table layout might be found within the Navigator. The Navigator
doesn't provide all of the functionality of WP's Reveal Codes, but
it's another powerful tool that might be helpful for you.

> Does Libre have any such “reveal codes” function? If so, I have not found it yet. If not, can you 
> put it into future updates?

As noted above, not yet, but it is something that would be nice to
implement! If you have experience with computer programming, or think
that adding this functionality would be something useful to you or
your company, there are a number of LibreOffice developers and
consultancies who be interested in working on 'Reveal Codes' as a
feature for a future version of LibreOffice. As with most work, it's
just a matter of finding the developer time to make it possible. We're
always looking to have more developers and more organizations become
active participants in the LibreOffice project :-)

Cheers,
--R

P.S. Thanks for mentioning the post on the Ask site -- it appears that
we don't have a question specifically about Reveal Codes up there, so
(because it's such a popular request) I'll add one pointing to the
enhancement request on the bug tracker.

-- 
Robinson Tryon
QA Engineer - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
qubit@libreoffice.org

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