Bug 40589

Summary: FORMATTING curly bracket (from drawing toolbar) in wrong place
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Yannick Chiron <ylchiron>
Component: CalcAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: bugs
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.4.3 release   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: macOS (All)   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Attachments: table in Calc with a curly bracket } changing place according LibO version

Description Yannick Chiron 2011-09-02 15:51:16 UTC
Created attachment 50851 [details]
table in Calc with a curly bracket } changing place according LibO version

In files created in Calc LibreOffice 3.3, I had some curly brakets } displayed in some place.

When opened with LibreOffice 3.4.3, they are not where they are supposed to, but moved up and left.

I don't remember it happening under LibreOffice 3.4.2.  And LibreOffice 3.3.4 still displays them at the correct place.

I also noticed that if I save the file in XLS format, then LibreOffice 3.4.3 displays them correctly.

I attached a file for example. Look at the curly braket }, which appears near B1 cell in LibreOffice 3.4.3, though it should be displayed near F4 and G5 cells, like in LibreOffice 3.3.4.
Comment 1 Yannick Chiron 2011-09-02 22:56:14 UTC
Note that we are talking about a curly bracket made from the drawing toolbar, not typed from the keyboard.
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:34:56 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 3 Yannick Chiron 2011-12-23 14:11:22 UTC
Bug still occurs with LibO 3.5.0 Beta 1 (and also with current stable release 3.4.4).

Under 3.5.0Beta1 and 3.4.4, if you move the curly bracket where it should, save and close the file, then when you reopen the file the curly bracket became invisible (transparent). Opening it with the older 3.3.4 version, the curly bracket is somewhat at the place it should but its shape is not correct anymore.
Comment 4 Yannick Chiron 2011-12-23 21:32:43 UTC
I just checked and LibO 3.5.0 Beta 2 is also affected.

I also tried something new and it may help narrowing down the problem.

Like I described in the previous comment (comment #3), I again moved the curly bracket where it should, but this time I changed the anchor from "attached to the cell" to "attached to the page", then I saved and closed the file.  Well, then when I reopened the file, under LibO 3.3.4, 3.4.4, 3.5.0Beta2, the bracket was at the right place, visible and with the right shape.

This is not a solution to the bug, because people should not have to reopen all their previous files made before LibO 3.3 and modify their formatting, but it may help to find the problem and give a temporary solution for users.
Comment 5 Roman Eisele 2012-09-20 10:49:42 UTC
Bug was never confirmed by an independent reviewer, therefore reset Status to
UNCONFIRMED.

(No offence -- this does not mean that I doubt the existence of this bug --
when status is UNCONFIRMED, the chance is even better that a bugwrangler will
try to reproduce this issue or search for duplicates, while with Status NEW the
bug will probably just be overlooked.)
Comment 6 Roman Eisele 2012-09-20 10:50:57 UTC
Reset the Version number. Please note that the Version field should always contain the FIRST version in which a bug is known to exist, and NOT the last one, therefore please do not “update” the Version field. Thank you ;-)
Comment 7 Yannick Chiron 2012-09-20 21:49:47 UTC
I just checked and this bug is now solved.
LibreOffice 3.6.1 displays the curly bracket in the correct place.
Great :-)
I changed the status to resolved and fixed.
Comment 8 Roman Eisele 2012-09-21 05:36:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I just checked and this bug is now solved.
> LibreOffice 3.6.1 displays the curly bracket in the correct place.
> Great :-)

Wow -- good to hear about that! Thank you very much for checking again and letting us know about your results.

(I just change the Status to WORKSFORME; we prefer WORKSFORME instead of FIXED when there is no fix (patch, commit) especially for that specific bug report.)