Re: [orca-list] Fwd: Likely bug with Office Writer, was: Re: More on submitting Orca bugs

[Christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>]

Gawod! Dang! OK, my head hurts just thinking! about that.


Enough said.


Chris.


On 02/15/2019 09:03 PM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> Seeing more discussion about what is happening when you shift+down arrow
> in Writer, I'm forwarding something I sent to Christopher. Because it's
> top posted I'll first quote his question. Then my response follows.
>
> Christopher's question:
>
> > So, would I be correct in assuming that if I didn't bullet a list, but instead I wrote two lines of text:
> >
> > yellow
> > green
> >
> > If I right arrow on the first line to the first l in yellow, then shift down arrowed, I'd actually select l l 
> > o w, but because it jumps down the cursor selecting everything before on the next line up to immediately 
> > below where the cursor was on the first l, what we'd actually have would be l l o w selected, but then also, 
> > on the next line, g r e would also be selected as well?
> My response:
>
> What you describe is what takes place if the Y in yellow is capitalized
> and the g in green is not. And by default, if you type "yellow" (with an
> initial lowercase "y") and then press return it becomes capitalized. So
> my guess based on what I'm seeing and what you reported is that you have
> a capital Y but a lowercase g.
>
> But if you go back, ensure the "y" is lowercase, and repeat the same
> steps, g r gets selected; not g r e. This appears to be due to a capital
> Y being wider than a lowercase y.
>
> A capital Y followed by a lowercase e occupies about the same width as
> lowercase g r e. A capital Y followed by a lowercase e also occupies
> about the same width as capital G followed by lowercase r.
>
> If you type Weird (with a capital w) on one line, press return and type
> a bunch of lowercase letter i, when you move past the W and press
> Shift+Down, you wind up selecting the first three i's.
>
> Long way of saying what you've probably already concluded: Seems to be
> based on coordinates/pixels and not character offsets. And, again, this
> is all without Orca running.
>
> HTH.
> --joanie
>
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