[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142476] New: Save a Copy

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142476

            Bug ID: 142476
           Summary: Save a Copy
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.5.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: luke.kendall at gmail.com

Steps:

1) Open a file.txt
2) Write some stuff. Maybe even use formatting that .txt format doesn't
support. 
3) Save the file. (Leave it as plain text.)
4) Save a Copy and select HTML format.
Result:
Writer fails to change the extension to .html and instead offers the choice to
overwrite the existing file. This ignores the user's intention of saving an
alternate format version of the file.
Writer then changes the file type from what the user selected (e.g. HTML) back
to .txt.
Until the user manually deletes the file extension from the filename in the
Save a Copy text field, you cannot save the file as the file type you're trying
to.

This bug may relate to
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111070, but I think this
may be a different use case.

Note that this happens on Linux.

The reason for wanting to do this slightly odd operation is to prepare clean
source text for creating simple HTML. Using some formatting is a convenient
reminder to apply similar formatting in the target environment.

(Writer's HTML format is far too complex and unwieldy for many web platforms to
use as input markup - e.g. for Wordpress, or MailerLite newsletters, or blogs.
I mention this not to complain but merely to explain why the use case makes
sense. Writer is an excellent editor for plain text and most other formats, but
the underlying representation can cause problems due to the complexity caused
by 1) editing operations, and 2) by direct formatting. Plain text does not
capture any of those structural complexities from either of those causes.)

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