[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 100018] FORMATTING: copying/pasting text to the first character of footnote changes paragraph style to the copied text's style instead of 'footnote' paragraph style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100018

sdc.blanco at youmail.dk changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |127250
                 CC|                            |sdc.blanco at youmail.dk
           See Also|                            |https://bugs.documentfounda
                   |                            |tion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98
                   |                            |381
            Summary|FORMATTING: copying/pasting |FORMATTING: copying/pasting
                   |text into footnote changes  |text to the first character
                   |formatting to 'standard'    |of footnote changes
                   |instead of 'footnote'       |paragraph style to the
                   |                            |copied text's style instead
                   |                            |of 'footnote' paragraph
                   |                            |style

--- Comment #9 from sdc.blanco at youmail.dk ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> Sounds like a pragmatic solution but I tend to be against it for sake of
> consistency. Copied text paragraph holds its style and you have to paste
> special as text. Changing the default behavior on one place spoils it on
> every other.
>From a user perspective:  it is not consistent. 

Consider from standard use perspective:  User decides to move text from main
body to footnote.  Insert footnote. Copy and delete text from main body.  Click
on footnote.  Paste.  (disappointment)

For years I never understood why it did not work, until I discovered that if I
put a single space, then it "behaved" as expected/desired (with the minor
irritation of having to go back to delete the space).   (And now this bug
explains the problem.)

As noted in comment 1, a single space is enough to have footnote style
"override" the style of the pasted text.  From a user perspective it seems
inconsistent that it does work with a space, but does not work without a space. 

Given this is a special and limited context (where text is being copied into a
footnote), it seems permissible to allow "footnote" style to "override".

(have changed the summary to reflect the fact that this happens with any style
copied to footnote (e.g, Heading 1)


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127250
[Bug 127250] [META] Text formatting issues when inserting or overwriting
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