[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 131920] Full text highlight + shading support

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131920

Justin L <jluth at mail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Justin L <jluth at mail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #6)
> (In reply to Bart from comment #2) who was suggesting the compatibility
> palette be "encouraged" for character highlighting, and selective export of
> highlight-compatible colours as highlight, and the rest as shading.
> 
> Your proposal looks like a tremendous amount of work to fix Microsoft's issues.
>  Do you think it's needed given that MSO's Theme Shading is not hard to find?

I had initially come to the same conclusion as Bart. However, as Heiko notes,
that will be a tremendous amount of work since the current PaletteManager has
no capabilities for "special use cases". The most recent palette used is saved
in user settings and used for EVERY use case.

Also, Heiko is right about modern MS Word's shading tool being easy to find. At
first I compared shading to a permanent marker used on a whiteboard - really
hard to remove. But today, a better analogy is the difference between a
pencil/eraser and a pen/white-out.

Our current support for import/export of highlight works for the practical
cases, but isn't complete enough to handle the theoretical documentation. I
mean, MS Word doesn't allow the user to add highlighting to paragraph styles,
so the fact that we don't import or export "none" highlighting doesn't really
matter.

But it DOES matter if we start exporting colours as highlight in styles. So
Bart's idea of exporting the 15 colours as highlight is simple enough on the
surface, but it leads to a lot of other development work to support styles
properly. (It would be easy enough to do if it only applied to direct
formatting.)  See bug 137683 and bug 138345.

So my conclusion after working on various parts of this for a week is that it
is not beneficial to export the 15 colours as highlight with the rest as
shading - just export them all as shading. Otherwise LibreOffice edits become
inconsistent to remove in MS Word.

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