Bug 129722 - Writer - Hide white-space mode is buggy with impact on document content
Summary: Writer - Hide white-space mode is buggy with impact on document content
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2020-01-01 16:56 UTC by jul
Modified: 2020-01-08 14:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2020-01-01 16:57 UTC, jul
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Description jul 2020-01-01 16:56:13 UTC
Description:
When editing a document with "hide whitespace" activated, LO behave weirdly:
- a lot of page brakes are displayed (grey lines) where there is actually none
- in one case, I have an (empty) table, each time I add a line above it, a line break appears for each line of the table
- when I delete the begining of my document, an empty page is kept at the begening of the document, whereas there is nothing left in it
- page footnotes sometimes vanish
See attachments for screenshots.
Thanks in advance for your help

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Activate "Hide whitespaces"
2.update your document
3.see LO doing nonsense

Actual Results:
See attachment for screenshots

Expected Results:
"Hide whitespaces" mode is a very important feature :-(


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.3.4.2
Build ID: 1:6.3.4-0ubuntu0.19.04.1~lo1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.0; UI render: default; VCL: kde5; 
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 jul 2020-01-01 16:57:25 UTC
Created attachment 156888 [details]
Screenshots of the bug
Comment 2 Dieter 2020-01-05 18:41:38 UTC
Jul, thank you for reporting the bug. Some parts of your report might relate to bug 118456. You also mention different aspects of problems with hide whitespace option. Please open one bug report for each issue.

Please also attach a sample document, as this makes it easier for us to verify the bug. 
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' once the requested document is provided.
(Please note that the attachment will be public, remove any sensitive information before attaching it)
Comment 3 jul 2020-01-08 13:17:19 UTC
Hi Dieter

Thanks for your answer.
I tried to reproduce the bugs I faced.
- as you suggested, the part regarding the deletion at beginning of document is quite the same as bug 118456. 
- for other issues, I'm not able to reproduce them (I'm a bit frustrated, but that's the way it is...). The document I was working on as evolved and I think I also updated LO since then...

So I guess this bug can be cancelled.

Thanks again for your time & answer.

Julien
Comment 4 Dieter 2020-01-08 14:29:04 UTC
Jul, I (In reply to jul from comment #3)
> So I guess this bug can be cancelled.

Julien, thanks for testing. I close it as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. Feel free to reopen it, if it happens again and you're able to reproduce it.