RTF insertion on macOS does not work

[adomasven]

LO 5.3.0.3, macOS 10.13.2

[adomasven]

Cannot reproduce after updating extension in LO to 5.0.8

[dstillman]

I'm still seeing this with 5.0.8. Was happening in 5.3, still happening in 5.4.4.2.

The properly formatted version appears initially (maybe without a gray background?) and then is immediately replaced by a field with a gray background and no formatting.

1. Add a citation in Chicago, ReferenceMarks.
2. Click on the citation and choose Add/Edit.
3. Open Classic View, Show Editor
4. Add italics to a word in the citation

The italics don't appear in the document. If you return to the editor, the formatting is still set.

[adomasven]

This is just the editor styling not actually functioning. It produces HTML formatting, but all of our plugins use RTF.

[dstillman]

If it's not functioning, why am I briefly seeing the correct formatting in LibreOffice, and why did it just appear when I clicked Refresh a couple times?

Let's leave this open until this is resolved.

[dstillman]

1. Add a citation in Chicago, ReferenceMarks.
2. Click on the citation and choose Add/Edit.
3. Open Classic View, Show Editor
4. Add an underline to a word in the citation and click OK.

The underline doesn't appear for me in LibreOffice.

However:

5. Click Refresh

I briefly see the underline, and then it goes away again.

6. Click Refresh again.

The underline reappears and stays put.

[adomasven]

Ok. Should have got the sleep before looking into this:

• Custom citation code is broken in Refactor integration and delay citation updates zotero#1242 . To be fixed.
• Custom citations work fine on master with all word processors. HTML -> RTF conversion done by styled-textbox
• There's a caveat for LibreOffice plugin, where partial inline citation styling disappears and only styling applied to the whole chunk of text applies. This is due to an optimization, which speeds up inline citation updates for libreoffice 2x. I'm not in favor of reverting this until someone on the forums comes with a very compelling argument for why partial custom styling of inline citations is that important

Inclined to close this.

[adomasven]

Closing this since I don't see us slowing down the LO plugin to facilitate an extreme corner case and there has been no discussion re this for 2 years on the forums or anywhere else