Hi Svante, On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 05:40:15PM +0200, Svante Schubert <svante.schub...@gmail.com> wrote: > To bring this back to your present proposal: consider a simple text "ABC" > where I apply a red style to "AB" and you apply bold to "BC"—a clear case > of overlapping changes. Should we aim to support such scenarios already > now, or would this be better addressed in a future, more robust design once > we’ve moved past the current workarounds?
Writer core at the moment has ~no support for overlapping tracked changes: if you want to e.g. have a delete on top of an insert, then we cut the original insert into pieces. E.g. <ins>A<del>B</del>C</ins> is represented using 3 redlines in Writer: A is just an insert, B is a delete with an underlying insert and C is another delete. My ODF proposal is just meant to extent the schema to the markup that (as far as I see) the Writer ODF import/export was always writing -- I just ran into this problem because nobody wrote a test for this part of the change tracking code previously and we require all ODF emitted by the testcases to be valid ODF. If you want to came up with a standard markup for collaboration, you can do that -- but my proposal is way smaller: a simple extension to the schema to acknowledge the markup that is already in many documents from Writer. This also allows not losing formatting when converting between DOCX and ODT. My simple request was to file an ODF proposal for this, since I can't do that myself. Thanks, Miklos
