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<font size="+1">Greetings from a chilly Scotland,<br>
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I have a strange behaviour with change bars which is quite
undesirable, where change bars become excessively long. I found
this with a structured XML document, but the same occurs with
unstructured documents, and the behaviour occurs in FM 10, 11 and
12. <br>
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The scenario is a simple unstructured document containing the
following:<br>
x a 1<br>
y b 2<br>
z c 3<br>
and a table is added to the end of each of the lines. Select the
letter a, and then select menu item: Format > Style > Change
Bar. The line is correctly marked with the change bar. But when
same action is performed for the letter b, the change bar is
extended between the 'x a 1' line including the table. Repeat the
same for the letter c, and now the whole document has a change
bar! <br>
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This is NOT useful, as the table content hasn't been changed -
it's just the lines where the table anchor are located that have
changed.<br>
I would have expected just the line to be marked with the change
bar - as the MIF of the document clearly has the table anchor
outwith the 'change bar' tagged text.<br>
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I can add a line-feed character, or add an extra paragraph before
the table anchor to circumvent the long change bar effect, but my
client does not like this.<br>
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Could this be considered a bug?<br>
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