[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 76282] EDITING: [RFE] Ability to disable character-substitution in paragraph-styles

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76282

Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Regina Henschel <rb.henschel at t-online.de> ---
(In reply to David Juran from comment #0)
> Problem description: 
> When writing a technical document, I often have sections which are intended
> to be cut-and-pasted into a terminal window. For these sections I use a
> specific paragraph style.
>  LibreOffice by default does certain character substitutions such as
> replacing "--" with a long line. This does look good in the text so I
> wouldn't want to disable the substitution altogether but it's suboptimal
> when the intention is that the text should be pasted into a terminal and
> then some command-line option has gotten substituted into something that the
> terminal interprets as a control code and goes berserk...

Such substitutions are bound to language. You only need to set the language to
[none] in your special paragraph style and e.g. -- and " will stay as they are
typed. I use a monospaced font in addition.

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