[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 122710] PRINT DIALOG: For "Pages to print" field interpret space as separator for a list of distinct pages to print

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122710

--- Comment #11 from Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #10)
> (In reply to Ulf Zibis from comment #9)
> > I'm not a friend of error messages about strict syntax faults.
> 
> Definitely not. If the user writes "Hello World" into the range she wouldn't
> get any preview, which makes it very clear. This shouldn't change.

... if she has the print preview enabled and looks in that area. But why would
anyone want to press "OK" when they know that what they entered is invalid
anyway?

> In respect to comment 6, I fully agree with 1) and 2) but not 3) (additional
> effort, more complexity),

Just tested this. It looks like 3 already works, e.g. entering e.g. "-2"
selects pages 1 and 2 in a 20 page document.

> and object to 4) because "allow space, but only
> if" might be easy to understand for people who discuss the topic but not the
> average user.

If we don't reject invalid input, I'd say we should be doing *something* with
spaces in this case (or we just say that we always just don't print anything
when something like this is entered, but as as a user I'd be much less
surprised to get some kind of explicit information).

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