Bug 129070 - Writer makes next letter caps after an abbreviation
Summary: Writer makes next letter caps after an abbreviation
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2019-11-28 05:34 UTC by Elmar
Modified: 2019-11-29 10:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
examples of sentences (20.72 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-11-28 05:38 UTC, Elmar
Details
tested with different versions (22.60 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-11-29 07:53 UTC, Elmar
Details

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Description Elmar 2019-11-28 05:34:50 UTC
Description:
Type a sentence which includes an abbreviation. The next work is capitalised as if it is a new sentence.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type sentence, include abbreviation
2. continue typing
3.

Actual Results:
next word is capitalised 

Expected Results:
next word should not be capitalised


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-GB
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes

Version: 6.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 800b6f095f95ccfb8a7ba9755292332bf97f97ad
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-11-21_00:20:22
Locale: en-GB (en_ZA.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-GB
Comment 1 Elmar 2019-11-28 05:38:33 UTC
Created attachment 156161 [details]
examples of sentences
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2019-11-28 11:27:41 UTC
Well, the abbreviation has a dot at the end, Writer just turns every character after a dot to uppercase
I just checked in MSO 2010 and the behaviour is the same.
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2019-11-28 13:59:51 UTC
I cannot confirm it. The string 'vs.' is included in the exception list of both English(UK) and English(US).
@Elmar: Please have a look at Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options, and then tab Exceptions. Select the language of the text, and then look into the upper list 'Abbreviations (no Subsequent Capital)'. Is the sting 'vs.' listed there?

I have used Version: 6.2.5.2 (x64)
Build ID: 1ec314fa52f458adc18c4f025c545a4e8b22c159
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: de-DE (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
for my tests.
Comment 4 Elmar 2019-11-29 07:53:53 UTC
Created attachment 156176 [details]
tested with different versions

I think this is a regression.
Tested it with LO v5.4 and it did not capitalise.
Then with the repository version (6.0) also worked as it should.
The copied the config from
.config/libreoffice/4
to 
.config/libreofficedev/4

and as you can see from the latest attachment, it capitalises.
Comment 5 Elmar 2019-11-29 08:10:56 UTC
@Regina
vs. isnot in English (UK)
it is in English (USA)
in the Dev version
Have added it into (UK)
then works correctly the next letter is not capitalised
<It is a vs. b >

I see that in LO v5.4 (which isnot DEV)
that the vs. is in the exceptions list

and when I use English (USA) as the default language it works correctly.

Did some checking: I guess it is 
LibreOfficeDev_6.5.0.0.alpha0_Linux_x86-64_deb_langpack_en-GB
which is not populated the abbreviations list?

Anyway, that explains it and you can close the issue as NOT A BUG