[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143996] In LO Writer the “Check true minus sign” function does NOT seem to work.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143996

--- Comment #6 from Eek! A Bug. Kill it! <tarotfied at protonmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4)
> Can not confirm.
> 
> There are two features colliding. The AutoCorrect option 'Replace dashes'
> checkbox will replace the U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS with a U+2013 EN DASH before
> the 'English sentence checking' 'Minus sign' has parsed the run for the
> pattern match.
> 
> Disable the autocorrect 'Replace dashes' and the blue squiggle of the
> sentence checking will appear.
> 
> Function is a bit sloppy--the match pattern differs between the
> 'Multiplication sign' and the 'Minus sign', e.g.  "5x3" will match "5-3"
> will not, the minus sign check requires "5 - 3" to match.
> 
> Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
> Build ID: 4cd3ce9848aa039b8d443a1257d1298231680b01
> CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL:
> win
> Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
> Calc: threaded



I do not understand you writing that you “can not confirm” the bug, but then
proceed to explain how there are two features colliding causing the bug. You
say that the minus sign check requires “5 – 3” to match, but that does not work
on my machine as I get the option to select between an en dash and an em dash,
but NOT a true minus sign option. The em dash and true minus sign are very
close, but NOT the same (the true minus sign looks to be the same length but
has a little more spacing before and after the minus sign and appears to be
slightly higher from the baseline than the em dash, which can be seen by
dramatically increasing the font size and adding the vertical bars on both
sides making it an absolute value).

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