Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 96855
Incorrect tagging when tracking changes
Last modified: 2008-12-06 03:07:15 UTC
Whereas changing the language (ie English USA to English UK) of a paragraph does not - this is correct behaviour - mark the whole paragraph as changed, doing the same thing for the whole document does - incorrect behaviour - things rather differently. Given a base document, with tracking on, the original text is black and the first set of changes come through in that brown-yellow colour. The second set of changes are in blue. If you key Ctrl-A and change the language, then all the original text goes blue, but the 1st set of changes stay brown-yellow. Either everything should have gone blue, including all the first set of changes, because their language has chanhed (I think this is highly undesirable, because a change of language that doesn't change any of the text shouldn't be marked), or all the original text should have stayed black because a change of language hasn't altered any of the text.
I don't really understand your description: If you change the language for a whole paragraph by selecting it, the whole paragraph will be marked as changed which is correct and consistent with behavior of the change tracking when selecting the whole document. Plus: "I think this is highly undesirable, because a change of language that doesn't change any of the text shouldn't be marked" A change of language though invisible IS a document change. Thus it should be tracked. Either I didn't understand what you mean or this issue is invalid.
I disagree with your assessment of whether a language change should be marked. HOWEVER, that aside, if you are going to mark it, then you must be consistent. Open document in track-changes mode; original text in black. 1st set of changes on brown-yellow; 2nd set of changes in blue. If, as part of the second set of changes, you change the language of a paragraph that was added in the 1st set of changes, it remains brown-yellow and is not marked as deleted or modified.
1) To mark or not: feel free to disagree but without arguing your point of view, there's not a lot of chance that change mine :) 2) I still don't understand your description which is too general and refers to colors (which are user dependant) and not to actions. Please upload a sample document with the start situation and add a step by step description of what you do, get and expect.
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