[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135803] New: View>Formatting Marks no longer shows tabs by default after install. Improve View>Formatting Marks

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135803

            Bug ID: 135803
           Summary: View>Formatting Marks no longer shows tabs by default
                    after install. Improve View>Formatting Marks
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: adalbert.hanssen at gmx.de

In an earlier version of LO Writer I could enable View>Formatting Marks to show
all formatting marks on the screen, e.g. blanks, forced line breaks, tabs,
paragraph marks, protected spaces and the like. When I work with LO Writer, I
always have this option on.

When I was composing this bug report, I found out that it already had been
dealt with as https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101438:

Now     working with
Version: 7.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: <buildversion>
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64 at 86-TDF, Branch:master, Time:
2020-08-06_17:35:14
Calc: threaded

I don’t see those little blue arrows denoting tabs any more. They should be on
if View>Formatting Marks is enabled.

I composed this error message in the named version of LO Writer and in the
sequence “Now <Tab> working with” there is a tab included. I marked it and
copied it to the older version and yeah: the tab between “Now” and “Working”
showed up there!

So it is not a bug and this report is not a duplicate because it calls for an
improvement: 

1. The default setting should be with all selectable items set to ON.
2. In the dialogue View>Formatting Marks should be equipped with a small
triangle pointing to the right to let one select or deselect which formatting
marks should be shown. The other place to change it under
Tools>Options>LibreOffice Dev Writer>Formatting Aids is really hard to find and
it is not an obvious place to look up.

Side finding: 
1. The function is told to be controlled by Ctl-F10, however this does not work
as advertised although there in no shortcut defined for this combination of
keys in my xfce4-keyboard-settings.

2. When one is in a table, pressing Tab gets you to the next cell (like in
spreadsheet programs). If you want to insert a Tab character into a table, you
have to press Ctl-Tab. This should be described in the documentation not only
on page 294 (which is too much to read before one finds it), but already on
page 91, where tab positions are discussed. The thing to changed there is:
replace
     (by pressing the Tab key on the keyboard)
by
     (by pressing the Tab key on the keyboard or Ctl-Tab if the cursor is in a
table)

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