Issue 19816 - auto-adjust white spaces when drag'n dropping text is good but needs tweaking to consider "()","." and so on
Summary: auto-adjust white spaces when drag'n dropping text is good but needs tweaking...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC4
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2003-09-19 19:52 UTC by lars
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:36 UTC (History)
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Description lars 2003-09-19 19:52:47 UTC 
auto-adjust white spaces when drag'n dropping text is good but needs tweaking to
consider ",","." and so on


details on what exactly it should do follow
Comment 1 lars 2003-09-19 20:03:26 UTC 
this is an example text with abbreviations such as abbr., commas as
just utilized and parenthesis (which we don't want to forget of course!)!


expected behaviour when drag'n dropping (note some only apply to english):

1. if '.' and if next char == ',' or if next chars white space and
lowercase letter, treat as abbreviation and auto-adjust white spaces
when drag'n dropping

2. treat drag'n dropped paranthesis like normal words and adjust space s
Comment 2 mci 2003-09-24 12:22:23 UTC 
reassigned to bh
Comment 3 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:56:22 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Comment 4 lars 2008-05-17 22:49:12 UTC 
issue still valid as per OOo 3.0 Beta m2.


dragged parenthesis not handled correctly (drag the whole paren. structure).
Comment 5 mike_hall 2008-06-27 12:10:20 UTC 
Drag and drop is a bit of a mess, eg select some text with no surrounding white
space, drag and drop is OK.
Click undo and the selection will include a leading space.
Drag and drop again, and unless you are careful, white space does not adjust as
it did the first time.

Similarly, select any text including a starting or trailing space, white space
does not adjust intuitively. I can understand why it has been implemented this
way, but it's not the behaviour most users probably want. Maybe we need an
option setting, someone probably depends on it as it is!

Intuitive drag and drop is almost the first thing you might want to get right
for a word processor. Will suggest in ux-discuss that this is targeted for 3.1.
Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:08:34 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".