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Bug 477895 - Orca thinks OOo Writer normal text is bold in certain circumstances.
Orca thinks OOo Writer normal text is bold in certain circumstances.
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie)
Orca Maintainers
Depends on: 489828
Blocks: 404411
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-17 22:01 UTC by Rich Burridge
Modified: 2010-05-22 18:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Rich Burridge 2007-09-17 22:01:13 UTC
Steps to reproduce:

1/ Start Orca
2/ Start OOo Writer with "oowriter -norestore" (not sure if "-norestore" is
   important - that was just the way I was trying it).
3/ In the empty text document, type in the following (without the quotation
   marks):
   control-b "bold" control-b space control-i "italic" control-i space "normal"
4/ Type Insert-f

The text caret is to the right of the "normal" text. It thinks it's bold.

Note that if you instead do:

control-home insert-f control-right insert-f control-right insert-f

the text information for each of the words is correct.
Comment 1 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2007-09-17 22:06:01 UTC
I just looked at this with Accerciser.  It seems that in OOo Writer, for any given paragraph the "\n" at the end of that paragraph will inherit the style of the first character in that paragraph.  YAOOB?
Comment 2 Rich Burridge 2007-09-17 22:36:45 UTC
> YAOOB?

I'd think so, but before I submit it, could Will and Mike comment...
Comment 3 Rich Burridge 2007-09-18 20:37:00 UTC
We discussed this at the Orca team meeting this week. I will file YAOOOB.
Comment 4 Rich Burridge 2007-09-18 21:32:59 UTC
OpenOffice issue is:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81718
Comment 5 Rich Burridge 2007-10-18 15:45:45 UTC
Removing the "[blocked]". od@openoffice.org gave a suggested
workaround that we could incorporate in the Orca StarOffice.py script:

"If you want a "fast" workaround, which will be correct in most cases, 
you can do the following:
If the user request the attributes for the character, she/he wants to input at
the end of the paragraph, you can provide the attributes, which are provided for
the last existing character. For most cases, this will be appropriate except the
cases, in which the user explicit change a certain character attribute at the
end of the paragraph. But, in this case the user made an explicit action and
she/he should be aware of this action."
Comment 6 Willie Walker 2007-10-24 15:03:44 UTC
Adding [blocked] for bug 489828.  The work done on http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82637 should hopefully address much of this particular bug, though.
Comment 7 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-07-27 22:53:04 UTC
Changing the status to "to verify" as the OOo blocking bug has been marked as fixed.
Comment 8 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2009-08-02 19:38:23 UTC
Still blocked in the latest 3.2 available to the public (Build 9412)
Comment 9 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-04-02 16:37:00 UTC
Changing the status from 'blocked' to 'to verify' because the blocking bugs are
marked as fixed.

Note: Verification doesn't necessarily mean that Orca is doing the right thing
yet; merely that in theory we should be able to implement what we need to do
because we're getting the expected events from OOo.
Comment 10 Joanmarie Diggs (IRC: joanie) 2010-05-22 18:09:39 UTC
This is now fixed by the OOo guys. There's nothing for us to do in Orca. Closing as NOTGNOME.