Bug 131754 - Character emphasis menu unclear
Summary: Character emphasis menu unclear
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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6.4.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Character-Dialog
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Reported: 2020-03-31 20:59 UTC by Kenneth Hanson
Modified: 2023-05-21 18:16 UTC (History)
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Description Kenneth Hanson 2020-03-31 20:59:27 UTC
Description:
Under Character Formatting > Font Effects, one can choose "character emphasis" from among the following: dot, circle, disk, and accent. The meaning of these is somewhat unclear.

1. The difference between "circle" and "disk" is unclear, because the terms don't describe what they really are: unfilled and filled circles, respectively.

2. The difference between "dot" and "disk" is unclear when looking at the preview, because the difference in size is too small. This could be fixed via bug 131752, which suggests that the marks need to be replaced with better quality graphics.

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Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2020-03-31 21:47:59 UTC
No in the Character... dialog, the preview of the font effect responds to the size of the font as set on document canvas. Simply enlarge the font to see the shape. Final resolution of the effect on canvas could probably be improved, think Unicode combining diacritic might be a better approach for these effects rendered to canvas.  See bug 131752
Comment 2 Kenneth Hanson 2020-03-31 22:41:47 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> No in the Character... dialog, the preview of the font effect responds to
> the size of the font as set on document canvas. Simply enlarge the font to
> see the shape. Final resolution of the effect on canvas could probably be
> improved, think Unicode combining diacritic might be a better approach for
> these effects rendered to canvas.  See bug 131752

This applies to complaint #2, but #1 is a separate issue. The terms "circle" and "disk" really are no good.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-04-01 03:39:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Kenneth Hanson 2022-04-01 21:48:18 UTC
No change as of v7.2.6.2.