Issue 24781 - Inconsistent Treatment of Capitals by Font Effects
Summary: Inconsistent Treatment of Capitals by Font Effects
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
: 85889 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2004-01-24 06:42 UTC by geofffarrell
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description geofffarrell 2004-01-24 06:42:00 UTC 
Format->Character->Font Effects.  'Small capitals' and 'Title' have no effect on
characters already entered in capitals (eg, TEST WORDS).  This is illogical and
inconsistent with the treatment afforded capital letters by the Lowercase
option.  It would be more logical to have 'Small capitals' change 'TEST WORDS'
to a smaller version in capitals and 'Title' to change 'TEST WORDS' to 'Test
Words'.  Not having this treatment runs counter to the notion that changing a
style will change *all* occurrences of that style to the new format.  Currently,
if some text happens to be capitalised, then it will not be rendered as the user
has stipulated in the style.  The only option thereafter is to format the
capitalised characters manually.  I class this as a defect because of the
inconsistent treatment given to capitalised characters by the various options.
Comment 1 askoning 2004-01-24 10:05:21 UTC 
Behaviour confirmed 1.1.1a/Linux.
I agree with the point that this is inconsistent. However if this is changed, it
would become hard to enter acronyms (for example) in titles.
Suppose that I have a title "The 1st annual BARF* meeting". I do not want it to
be displayed as "The 1st Annual Barf Meeting" when I.convert it to Title case.

Solving one problem creates a new one? :|

* British Association for Rampaging Flowcharts ;)
Comment 2 h.ilter 2004-01-26 16:50:43 UTC 
Reassigned to US
Comment 3 geofffarrell 2004-01-27 06:49:52 UTC 
Yes, good point on acronyms.  Would it be possible to let users decide - for
each style obviously - whether they want the selected Font Effect to affect
capitalised words?  A checkbox something like 'Include capitalised characters'
would allow users to decide the behaviour; they will know the context of the
effect they really want in each case.   This would introduce consistent
behaviour in the Font Effects dialog, but allow departure from this on a
case-by-case basis.
Comment 4 ulf.stroehler 2006-04-04 13:47:32 UTC 
reassigned to es.
Comment 5 eric.savary 2006-05-16 09:42:50 UTC 
Reassigned
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2008-02-13 13:28:51 UTC 
*** Issue 85889 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***