johnny smith wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:47:49 -0000, Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> wrote: > >> Please look at the following document, which has been generated by a >> converter provided by org[1] >> >> It contains tables which whose text cannot be selected via select all. >> If there is something wrong with the odt, please tell me and I will >> report it on the org mailing list. > > notwithstanding dave's comment, the odt seems either defective or > incompatible with aoo (which may be aoo's fault as well). more specifically, > the tables are quite lonely within their sections. they have no text before > them, nor after. such a document can't be created by usual means of aoo, and > thus it isn't handled as expected. e.g., you can't type anything after the > second table or after the first one within its section, because there're no > empty paragraphs after the tables to take your input. you can't even peform > select-all operation manually (with a mouse rather than through ctrl+a). it > seems that the select operation uses contents of the <text:p> elements to set > boundaries of the selection. so, if there's no such element, then select-all > doesn't work properly. > > to fix this, i inserted the following two paragraphs into content.xml of your > file: > > <text:p text:style-name="OrgTableContentsLeft">some text after the first > table</text:p> > <text:p text:style-name="OrgTableContentsLeft">some text after the second > table</text:p> > > they follow the closing tags (</table:table>) of tables. there appeared to be > no way to do it through gui. > > after that select-all worked almost smoothly: it selected the cell on the > first press, the table on the second one and everything on the third one. > what was wrong is that it always started with the cell, even when the caret > was outside table. > > however, inserting a paragraph before each table fixed this. it didn't > require editing content.xml. the final version of the file is attached, and i > hope it won't be attenuated by antispam. > > i can't say on which program's account this bug is. consulting odf > specification may help answer this question.
Alternatively, place the cursor after the contents of the last cell in either of the tables and press ALT+ENTER. Sorry, I don't see this as a bug or a defect of the converter. Regards Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
