Description: This issue is present at least since LO 6.3.6. It happens also with LO7.x. It is a critical bug when you have to paste the text in the Wordpress "preformatted blocks" or having to work with HTML! My system runs with Windows 64bit. The error is not exactly reproducible but it happens always when you write a text, or changing an existing text, when applying formatting tags as bold words, or different colors to different words. It happens also when you insert new text between rows, or modifying existing sentences. Almost every time, LO adds randomly unwanted <span> tags which break the text in hundred of lines, each one containing even only a single character. In documents containing many pages, it is noticeable even in the increasing size of the .odt file. It rises more than expected, because the content.xml file gets filled with thousands of unnecessary <span> tags, and maybe also tags "<style:style style:name" You see the effect of these tags when you paste the text into a "Preformatted text" block in Wordpress. The pasted text shows all the line breaks causes by the <span> tags. Here a small example of what happens in the content.xml file. The text is broken in many of mini-rows, filled up with tags "<text:span text..." and "<style:style style:name=...." example: <text:span text:style-name="T1">P</text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T2">rob</text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T3">a</text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T2">bly, </text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T1">collisions with other galaxies have </text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T2">already happened to the Milky Way in the past, in</text:span> <text:span text:style-name="T1">corporating </text:span> It is a problem of LibreOffice. I have attached the document "sample3.odt" HTML look so: <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy"><b>Andromeda</b></a> is the galaxy more near to ours, the Milky Way. It is about 2,5 millions of light years from us (which is a little distance in the scale of universe). Andromeda is a big Galaxy, bigger that the Milky Way. It has a diameter of 220.000 light years and contains about <b>1000 billions of stars</b>.</span></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In comparison, the Milky Way is 170.000 - 200.000 light years large and contains 100-400 billion stars.</span></span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The interesting part is that Andromeda is moving towards us and in about 4,5 billions years Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way. We can do nothing to stop this way! Collisions among galaxies are a common event in the universe.</span></span></p> The attached example has been created with LO 6.x, but it happens also with LO 7.x. Please provide a feedback about this bug. All the existing .odt files are messed up with these tags. If possible, a tool to clean the existing documents would be demanded. Steps to Reproduce: See bug description Actual Results: Text in content.xml file is broken with many unwanted <span> tags Expected Results: Text is not broken with unwanted <span> tags Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: I am currently using LO 6.4 but it happens also with LO 7.x I don't need to update my main LO installation before this bug is fixed.
Created attachment 172261 [details] Example .odt file
Created attachment 172262 [details] Screenshot Effect of the unwanted <span> tags
The problem is likely caused by officeooo:rsid attributes. Those are written to improve change tracking. You can avoid them with two methods: A) Go to menu Tools > Options > Writer > Comparison and uncheck the option "Store it when changing the document". To remove the attributes from existing documents, you need to save them once in format "1.3" (method B) or remove the attributes manually in the file. B) Save in "ODF 1.3". Unfortunately this does not only avoid this attribute but all LibreOffice extensions. And LibreOffice has a lot of extensions. To change the file format for saving go to menu Tools > Options > Writer > Load/Save and select the version "1.3" from the drop-down list 'ODF format version:'. Please report back whether removing the officeooo:rsid attributes solves the problem.
I think I know what he is talking about. If I write text in LibreOffice Writer (I do this since I do word corrections with Writer), then I copy and paste the text into certain websites, websites where I am responding to someone, it posts lots of tags, span and such and lots of newline characters. I use Firefox. It doesn’t happen with all websites. It happens with patheos. The solution is to do Ctrl-Shift-V, which removes the formatting. Or, paste the text into a simple text editor, like Notepad and Kate, and then copy from there and paste it to the website.
(In reply to krumple_sodium from comment #4) > The solution is to do Ctrl-Shift-V, which removes the formatting. > Or, paste the text into a simple text editor, like Notepad and Kate, and > then copy from there and paste it to the website. Hi, thank you for the hint, but it is not a viable solution. If I transform the text into plain text, I loose also all the other format tags that I need to keep (bold, text, color, underline, hyperlink, etc.) MS Office has not this problem. I will do some tests disabling the option "Store it when changing the document" and I will let know.
This probably isn't a regression.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3) > The problem is likely caused by officeooo:rsid attributes. Those are written > to improve change tracking. You can avoid them with two methods: > A) Go to menu Tools > Options > Writer > Comparison and uncheck the option > "Store it when changing the document". To remove the attributes from > existing documents, you need to save them once in format "1.3" (method B) or > remove the attributes manually in the file. > B) Save in "ODF 1.3". Unfortunately this does not only avoid this attribute > but all LibreOffice extensions. And LibreOffice has a lot of extensions. To > change the file format for saving go to menu Tools > Options > Writer > > Load/Save and select the version "1.3" from the drop-down list 'ODF format > version:'. > > Please report back whether removing the officeooo:rsid attributes solves the > problem. Hello. I could some tests, but not too much intensively: - Disabling the option in Tools > Options > Writer > Comparison "Store it when changing the document" it seem so reduce the amount of unwanted line breaks, but not before and after the words with different colors or in bold. - Saving the document in format ODF 1.2 not extended, (on LO 6.4 I have not V 1.3), it cleans some unwanted line breaks, but not before and after the words formatted with different color "star clusters" or some word in bold "today". I will attach the file saved in ODF 1.2 and the screenshot.
Created attachment 172303 [details] odt file v1.2
Created attachment 172304 [details] Screenshot ODF v1.2
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(In reply to Tyco72 from comment #7) > (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3) > Hello. I could some tests, but not too much intensively: > - Disabling the option in Tools > Options > Writer > Comparison "Store it > when changing the document" > it seem so reduce the amount of unwanted line breaks, but not before and > after the words with different colors or in bold. In case of changing character styles inside a paragraph such <span> elements are essential. That is the necessary markup to describe a change in character style.
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #14) > In case of changing character styles inside a paragraph such <span> elements > are essential. That is the necessary markup to describe a change in > character style. Thank you for the info. In which LO version has the bug been fixed? But MS Office had not that problem with span tags, also when changing styles (bold or color, for example). Or at least it didn't produce unwanted returns in the text.