[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 32977] New: Draw module + text box + bullets

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32977

           Summary: Draw module + text box + bullets
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: LibO 3.3.0 Beta2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Libreoffice
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: marc at marcpare.com


I was just using draw and had to do a numbered and bulletted list and noticed
that these are not properly justified. I mean to say that, if the text line is
longer in bullet form, the text scrolls to underneath the bullet. Is this
normal behaviour? It does not do this in Writer.

Cheers

Marc
LibO3.3RC2 + Mandriva 2010.2 

This was discussed on the "user" mailist here:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/893

To reproduce: open a new page in Draw, create a text box and choose "Bullet" or
"Numbered". It will do as explained up above.

Below is a fix for it. But I think that it should be the same behaviour as the
Writer default. Hmmm ... maybe check the other modules too?

===========

> Perhaps this shouldn't be necessary (perhaps it should be the default
> behaviour) but (in *Draw*), select the entire list and then
>
> - Go to Format>Bullets and Numbering
> - Select the Position tab
> - Select Level 1
> - Increase the "Width of Numbering" from zero to anything you like the
> look of
> - Click OK
>
> The second (and subsequent) line(s) of a long bullet point will now
> justify under the beginning of the *text* of the first line instead of
> under its bullet.
>
> It mght be possible to increase the "Width of Numbering" in the default
> template for Draw so that it is always available but I haven't tried.
>

Thanks Harold.

I wonder if it could be made as default. I can't imagine many people not
wanting it to behave this way right from the start. I can only say that it
would frustrate most of the people I know who would have to do all of these
extra steps to get to by today's expected behaviour.

IMO, all six modules should behave the same way as to not confuse users
unecessarily. (Writer, Calc, Empress, Draw, Math, Base).

Cheers

Marc

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