Bug 115113 - LibreOffice Writer Selection & Search based on diacritics and colors
Summary: LibreOffice Writer Selection & Search based on diacritics and colors
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.4.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2018-01-19 16:12 UTC by Joseph
Modified: 2018-11-05 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description Joseph 2018-01-19 16:12:40 UTC
Description:
1. LibreOffice does not treat diacritics as separate characters independetly from the accented letter. {letter + diacritics} are treated as a single letter. Positioning the cursor between them, selecting and searching each alone is impossible.
2. Searching text of a given color find all colors, not the wanted one.
3. Opentype fonts: LibreOffice adds some unwanted kerning. In latin fonts, it is moderate; but marked in arabic. Ex: "جاء" is shown with a space between the first and second letters. I checked the font andd verified it contains no intrinsic kerning. N.B. the same fonts are treated corectly in MS Word.

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Reproducible: Always


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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (masking-agent; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
Comment 1 Joseph 2018-01-21 19:33:04 UTC
- The same occurs in Libreoffice 6.0
- I recently noticed that unwanted added kerning in Opentype fonts occurs in justified text, but not in right-alined or left-aligned text. Maybe, it relates to filling spaces between letters.
- While redesigning the search function, it would be desirable to search for a given text formatted in a given style. Currently, it is possible to search for a style without text or a text without style.
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2018-01-22 10:40:47 UTC
You can't confirm your own bugs. Moving it back to UNCONFIRMED until someone
else confirms it.
Comment 3 Joseph 2018-01-30 13:05:27 UTC
Search does not take into consideration accurate Alef forms with Hamza in Arabic. I suggest to take MS Word search as an example.
Comment 4 ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 2018-02-01 10:51:11 UTC
> 1. LibreOffice does not treat diacritics as separate characters independetly from the accented letter. {letter + diacritics} are treated as a single letter. Positioning the cursor between them, selecting and searching each alone is impossible.

Use shift+arrow keys to move the cursor between the base letter and the mark (it might not show anything visually, but try typing text and it will be inserted between the base and the mark).

The other issues are all independent bugs or feature requests, place open a separate bug report for each issue and don’t lump them all together.
Comment 5 Joseph 2018-02-08 16:34:28 UTC
Khaled,
Thanks for you suggestion but it does not resolve the problem. We should be able to search for, and replace, diacritics independently. This is very troublesome.
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2018-03-03 18:07:37 UTC
Setting to needinfo while we wait for the issues to be separated to their own reports.
Comment 7 V Stuart Foote 2018-03-21 02:58:07 UTC
Please test as per comment 4

Otherwise one issue each per BZ report...

Please separate each issue into its own, with individual steps to reproduce and test documents/screen clips as needed.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2018-10-09 11:27:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2018-11-05 16:11:54 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

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Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
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