Bug 157098 - No visual indication of non-character paragraph-style direct formatting
Summary: No visual indication of non-character paragraph-style direct formatting
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Track-Changes
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Reported: 2023-09-05 09:08 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2023-09-14 11:07 UTC (History)
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Document with tracked and untracked paragraph style changes (30.50 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2023-09-05 09:08 UTC, Eyal Rozenberg
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2023-09-05 09:08:39 UTC
Created attachment 189365 [details]
Document with tracked and untracked paragraph style changes

When "Track Changes" is on, if one makes direct-formatting changes to the paragraph style - no black line is shown on the margin of the paragraph, to indicate those changes.

This, in contrast to a switch from one paragraph style to the other, which does add a black line in the margin.

It is quite important to have at least some kind of visual indication that tracked changes have been made.
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-09-05 19:41:49 UTC
I claim this is a bug, not an enhancement request. All changes to a document are supposed to be trackable, and revertible. That's necessary both for review of styling changes (as opposed to textual changes), and for being able to account for the full set of differences between documents.
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2023-09-05 19:48:14 UTC
Michael, is the modification of any attribute tracked as a change?
Comment 3 Heiko Tietze 2023-09-06 12:02:00 UTC
I think the expectation is reasonable and making a paragraph centered, for example, should be taken into TC.
Comment 4 Eyal Rozenberg 2023-09-06 19:19:39 UTC
Note that this bug is supposed to be about the lack of visual indication for changes that are actually tracked. I've opened bug 157105 about changes to styles that aren't even tracked. (Naturally, if a change isn't tracked it won't be indicated.)
Comment 5 Michael Stahl (allotropia) 2023-09-14 11:07:06 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
> Michael, is the modification of any attribute tracked as a change?

used to be "no" but iirc Laszlo was working on something in that area...