Writer/Underline Color
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Underline color in Writer
Underline color is not a standalone attribute in Writer. It belongs to the underline attribute, which is one of significant font effect attribute. The underline and underline color attributes can be accessed via the “Font Effects” pane in Writer. The value range for underline color is the same as for the Color pane.
Descriptions of Main Problems
Currently, Apache OpenOffice 3.4 doesn't implement the support of underline color importing and exporting in WW8 filter, although it works well in ODF.
| underline color import | |
|---|---|
| odt | work |
| doc | lost |
| docx | lost |
| underline color export | |
|---|---|
| odt2odt | work |
| odt2doc | lost |
| doc2odt | lost |
| doc2doc | lost |
| docx2odt | lost |
| docx2doc | lost |
Underline color in document model
The Underline and Underline color attributes can be accessed via the UNO API. Using the properties CharUnderline, CharUnderlineColor, and CharUnderlinelineHasColor in the service com.sun.star.style.CharacterProperties. These properties are described in the following table:
| underlinecolor related properties | |
|---|---|
| short CharUnderline | This property contains the value for the character underline. |
| ::com::sun::star::util::Color CharUnderlineColor | This property contains the color of the underline for the characters. |
| boolean CharUnderlinelineHasColor | This property specifies if the property CharUnderlineColor is used for an underline. |
There is a Value container named SvxUnderlineItem for underline font effects which specify the underline color property
Underline color in specification
The underrline color attribute is stored using the following ODF property.
style:text-underline-color The value range is either font-color or a color value
The underline color attribute is stored using the following sprm property in MS Word bin format according its specification.
sprmCCvUI A COLORREF value that specifies the color of the text underline. When it comes to Office open XML
specification, element <w:u> and attribute <w:color> are used to specify the color for the underling text.
e.g. <w:u … w:color="auto" />
