https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150583
Bug ID: 150583
Summary: Have an option - better, default - of no
auto-formatting.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 3.3.0 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
This is too obvious, too fundemental and too simply fixed, to believe that it
could ever be fixed. But here goes: I would love it if there were the option of
no auto-formatting, e.g. I was making a list of Ukrainian lexical items not
obviously corresponding to (mainly) Russian or English. I had, in an earlier
session, four-spaced by default, giving me the chance to lesser-space phrasal
lexical items and semantically close clusters. I reopened it and was scanning
through: "...дія, дмухнутий, до...," then thought, "до?" I didn't write "до",
and realised, ah, "до побачення". What had happened was, I didn't notice that
the word-spacing had, upon reopening, auto-corrected to single. I tried looking
for a command to turn off the auto-spacing, corrected that one item, saved,
closed and reopened; and it was back to the all-knowing, all-powerful
auto-correct. Some people might find auto-format useful. I don't think I can
recall a single instance when I have. Word, especially: Word decided that most
people like to leave a space btw paragraphs, so tied the enter key to
double-space. You can't permanently turn that off. My work-around was to create
one generic file each for Word and Wordpad, wherein I set up single spacing and
"entered" several pages worth of blank text. So in using those blanks, I just
used the down-arrow instead of "enter." Same with those god-awful charms on
Windows 8. Long gone to God (poor God) and not lamented. Microsoft lost a lot
of users over that, but they just could have offered the option of turning off
the charms. That's basically the universal malady of software writing - the
failure to apply to every single feature the same option: toggle, on/off. I
believe that Wordperfect used to follow that principle - and I've tried to get
it back a couple of times. But bad money drives out good; VHS drives out Beta;
Word drives out Wordperfect; Google drives out all other Sir Chenjens, and
every new one copies effing, useless Google. I've gone on a bit here, but
really, this is a fundamental principle - I'm sure a huge, 35 kg gold nugget,
just lying on the groud waiting for any developer to pick it up and
revolutionise proramming. "Toggle, on/off" would bring programmers and end
users onto the same planet.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Write a brief document, e.g. five or ten words, using varied word-spacing.
2."Save as" and close the document.
3.Reopen: the variable spacing will have been reduced to uniformity.
Actual Results:
As stated above.
Expected Results:
Not interfered with what I wrote.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
No other information.
I have selected the first version, but I have no idea which. Doesn't matter,
this is not a tiny, technical "bug" relating to this or that version. it is a
fudamental failure in programming. There will certainly be the same problem on
all listed versions.
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