Notices by Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)

@libreoffice have submitted bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162934

@libreoffice er, that seems to have introduced a bug: When typing new text at the end of a paragraph that's fully-justified, when the text crosses over the halfway point along the line, it keeps trying to justify the (incomplete, last) line on typing each space.

Excuse typing errors, it's really made me self-conscious how frequent they are, but...

@arstechnica "It's counting down…”

@libreoffice I mean, it would mark a whole paragraph and say "there's direct formatting in here" and I'd be thinking "no there bloody isn't; nothing that I've done, and nothing visible” But if I do a manual clear direct formatting, the warning disappears, so there *was* something. But it was nothing *I* did. So wtf? *Any* manual fix for this is unscalable. The default action should be correct.

@libreoffice ... but it gets worse. Because it turns out, the Accessibility Check was faulting *every single paragraph* for the same thing, even for the majority that had no direct formatting, or even character styles, in them at all that could be revealed by the user interface.

So basically, that's useless. Useless false positives unless it can explain to me what's wrong.

Accidentally hit (and discovered) the Accessibility Check feature in @libreoffice At first it seemed, every time I used italics, it faulted me for “The text formatting conveys additional meaning." I'd be quite happy to use something more semantic. there is an “Emphasis" character style, for instance. I can even set it to turn on when I do cmd-I. But not turn off again. So that's useless. Unless someone can tell me how cmd-I can toggle it. (and bold/strong-emphasis for that matter)

@libreoffice ok, maybe I've wrangled the cmd-I, cmd-B to toggle emphasis and strong-emphasis respectively (it being necessary to restart the app for the toggle to work). Let's try living with that for a bit.

It's customary to also use italic text for certain foreign or out-of-context words. Semantically I wonder what that should be called? Emphasis seems wrong.

@libreoffice accessibility check faulting every single damn paragraph when all you've been doing is typing, is useless. the only sane reaction is, "sod that then”.

@goatsarah @cstross this country is basically becoming as bad as the reddest of red states in the US on this issue. And Labour aren't going to do anything. And Scotland isn't going to be a refuge.

Being older it hasn't affected me directly yet, but it's still making me increasingly anxious and depressed. for one thing, i'm sure they’ll get around to us that transitioned years ago. and for another, i mean, what a shithole this place is.

@nixCraft @DSCH that's not fair.

it takes a year to get them to work *properly*. They work after a fashion almost immediately, and you think you just need to do a little tweak and they’ll work fully. you never think it's going to take a year…

@nixCraft @cstross what intellectual tasks a toddler can do? count fingers. 😀

@nixCraft @alecthegeek this is absolutely a thing

@arstechnica @lisamelton for being annoying now, they should be hit with a rule that plant-based milks can call themselves milk but they have to call theirs something like “bovine lactation product” and must disclose whether it's manually or machine extracted and, of course, list the hormones and antibiotics administered to the animal.

@arstechnica @lisamelton medicine goes with what works [has been proven to work]. If medicine insisted it understood *why* something works before it could be used, we'd still be screaming through all our surgeries because they have no fscking idea how anaesthesia works.