[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 119118] New: EDITING: Animating text 'letter by letter' or 'word by word' does not work

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            Bug ID: 119118
           Summary: EDITING: Animating text 'letter by letter' or 'word by
                    word' does not work
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.1.6.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Impress
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: frambla at gmail.com

I was trying to animate a text in Impress to appear as being typed on a
typewriter. I had done this in previous versions of LibreOffice and it worked
right but, in the version 5.1.6.2 included in Ubuntu 16.04 it does not work
anymore. It seems that the problem persists in new versions because the same
happens in version 6.0.3.2 included in Ubuntu 18.04.

After adding an animation to a Text Box, if you right-click the mouse over the
effect you can access to the "Effect options" dialog. 
In the bottom of the 'Effect' tab in this dialog-box, 'Text animation:' option
can be found. There are three possible values in the drop-down list: 'All at
once', 'Word by word' or 'Letter by letter'. If you select one of the two last,
then the delay between characters can be introduced in the box below the
drop-down list. It does not matter what value you enter in this box or in the
drop-down list, text always appears all at once. Surprisingly, the value of the
delay is expressed in percentage instead of seconds or any other time units.

I've tried to create a presentation in PowerPoint, insert the effect there,
after verifying it worked right, then I opened the same presentation in
Impress. The text that appeared letter by letter in PowerPoint, it appears all
at once in Impress. If I have a look at the effects options dialog, the "Text
animation:" option had changed to "all at once" in Impress although it was
"Letter by letter" in PowerPoint.

It seems this bug is affecting several versions of LibreOffice but I have found
no references to it elsewhere.

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