Bug 103400 - EDITING: Find & Replace, using Format, makes F&R unreliable
Summary: EDITING: Find & Replace, using Format, makes F&R unreliable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95927
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.6.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: notBibisectable, regression
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Blocks: Find-Search
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Reported: 2016-10-22 04:22 UTC by Luke Kendall
Modified: 2020-10-22 11:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Obfuscated .odt files produced from the MS files, that reproduce what I have described above (913.21 KB, application/zip)
2016-10-22 04:22 UTC, Luke Kendall
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Description Luke Kendall 2016-10-22 04:22:55 UTC
Created attachment 128143 [details]
Obfuscated .odt files produced from the MS files, that reproduce what I have described above

I have a novel; I decided to make sure every mention of the thing called "it" in italics, should be called "It" in italics (upper-case "I"). I have 3 versions of the MS: one for the 4"x7" print edition, one for the 5"x8" edition, and one for the Kindle edition.

I opened all three files.

I performed the Fine & Replace on the 4x7 file with no problem: I selected Whole Words only, typed in "it" (no quotes) in the search field, "It" in the replacement field, clicked on Format and left the font unselected but chose style Italic. I carefully made about 15 replacements (about 4 possible replacements would have been wrong in the context). F&R worked as expected, finding only "it" in italic as a whole word.

I then moved to the 5x8 edition MS. In the dialogue, most F&R fields were already set from editing the 4x7 file; but I had to type "It" into the replacement field.  I then started searching.  But now, F&R did not work correctly: it would only find regular-format "it" words.  I watched on one page, where "it" was in italic, and another "it" appeared a little below.  It would only find the 2nd, not the first.  but after that, it would only find regular-format "it", and refused to find italic-format "it". I notice that under the Search field, the words "Italic, normal," appear, for the file where F&R is finding the wrong-format text.  In the file where it is working, the text is displayed without a trailing comma: "Italic, normal".

In the Kindle edition (see file WT-CS-KDP.odt), it found a few italic "it"s, then started finding only regular "it"s.  F&R seems completely unreliable: I just tried it, and it found in succession about a dozen italic "it"s, bypassing regular-"it"s as it should, then started finding regular-"it"s and ignoring italic "it"s. Basically at random.  The function simply isn't working reliably.

I cannot supply you with the original source documents, however, as Amazon's T&C would not permit me to do that. So I have obfuscated the files, but leaving the letters "i" and "t" and untouched, and saved those files and attached them; they do evidence the bug, for me.

This bug may relate to 95633, 99038, 31491, or 95927, but none of them really sound the same as this, to me.

LO is becoming increasingly frustrating to me, as an author.  This is the 3rd bug which is preventing me from making a specific edit to my LO MS to correct an edition.  In this case, at least I have a workaround: I can Undo each change in the file for which F&R worked, carefully note where that was, find the same place in the other editions, and manually make the correction.  For the others (103078 and 62603), they're show stoppers.  It's very disheartening.

[Later...]
Having just done the manual fix-ups, I'll also note that Undoing to find them all worked well (there were actually 13 occurrences). But that there is also a bug in Redo, as after each redo, the text was converted from italic to regular.  Fortunately, I saved a copy of the file before I started Undoing, so this is not a major calamity.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2016-10-23 19:53:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Luke Kendall 2016-10-24 01:24:15 UTC
Okay, these steps reliably reproduce the problem for me:

1. Open the file I provided in the .zip file, called WT-CS-KDP.odt
2. Select While words only
3. Open the Find & replace panel
4. Click on the Other options link
5. Type these letters in the Search For field:  it
6. Click on the Format option.
7. Select the Font tab from the format panel
8. Under the Style drop-down, select Italic
9. Click on Find Next, noting that it is finding italicised occurrences of "it", correctly.
10. Keep clicking Find Next.  Note that from p469, it begins finding regular-format occurrences of "it", incorrectly.

Hopefully this shorter and more concise description will allow you to uncover and fix the bug.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2016-11-04 18:33:37 UTC
Repro already with 3.6, but not with 3.3.

Arch Linux 64-bit, KDE Plasma 5
Version: 5.3.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 6dc8f25ecf676a2e4d1a1018b729fef4096df8e7
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Linux 4.8; UI Render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); Calc: group
Built on October 28th 2016

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version 3.6.7.2 (Build ID: e183d5b)

Arch Linux 64-bit
LibreOffice 3.3.0 
OOO330m19 (Build:6)
tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2017-02-10 12:28:04 UTC
Adding more from another report:
attachment 131071 [details]
Find: Italic/Regular incorrectly

"But in some my capacious documents, it finds Italic and Regular (Normal) as I wrote, but now I discovered not all Regular.
I modified one capacious document to the small one.
In incorrect-find-italic.odt try to find d (Italic, Regular, No Format), description is also in document."
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2017-02-10 12:30:10 UTC
*** Bug 105725 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2018-09-12 02:38:00 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Buovjaga 2019-05-19 18:29:30 UTC
Bibisected on Linux with 43all repo to range https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/plugins/gitiles/core/+log/43c7830b03d141ae11d8617c0fdabefa32dd243c..ce97851773a06103504972eb2771eecd7dd81e36
The range is massive, with nearly 2 months of commits.
Comment 9 Aron Budea 2020-04-05 05:42:23 UTC
Let's use keyword notBibisectable in such case.
Comment 10 Timur 2020-10-22 10:50:49 UTC
I reproduced with nice sample attachment 131071 [details] in older LO but not in 6.3.6 nor master 7.1+. 
So I set WFM.
Please test yourself.
Comment 11 Timur 2020-10-22 11:13:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 95927 ***