Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 62105
"-" and tab characters incorrectly handled in all "plain" exports
Last modified: 2006-02-16 11:20:32 UTC
When exporting a point form list that was created with - and tab characters, OOo strips all the - and tab characters out. This happens in save as rtf, plain text or a simple cut and paste. ––---input to OOo--- Events & Activities - list of standard activities - blog setup - durpal - movie night - swimming - bike paths ---end input to OOo--- (note: This what was typed into OOo, but I had to recreate it in notepad to get around the bug) ---output from OOo as cut & paste or save as: plain text--- Events & Activities list of standard activities blog setup movie night swimming bike paths ---cut & paste end--- In other exports (rtf html) the - characters get changed to special (non ASCII) characters and bullets respectively. However if the html is viewed in a browser, now it's doublespaced. (Which is also wrong but a separate issue.) If you type in a "-" as a bullet, you should get a "-" as the output, not a new character as a bullet. (Note that autocorrect "Replace dashes" is off in all these cases.)
confirming that: - cut and paste in notepad and save as text removes all "-" and tabs - save as rtf changes "-" to some special character - save as html changes "-" to dots. OOo 2.0.2 RC1, WinXP Pro SP2
note that "-" in the odt file are automatic bullets from numbering and bullets, this means OOo has replaced "-" by their more formal character during typing.
When exporting a bullet list consisting of "-" symbols, I cannot reproduce the problem. Of course, it is a different bug, if someone can reproduce it with RTF and mentioned bullet signs. Please file a new issue for it and attach a native .odt (!) to reproduce the problem. MRU->ES: when having a bullet list like described ("-" symbol as bullet) and copy it via HTML interface, it is turned into dot bullet signs.
The default bullets in Writer and Writer Web are not the same -> inconsistency. Workaround: disable Format - AutoFormat - While Typing. Unfortunately, we have no ressource available to fix or improve the HTML component, so that we only can fix crashes and huge regressions.
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