[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 114205] Add a Tabulation Size entry to the style panel

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114205

Chris <curieux.public at free.fr> changed:

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         Resolution|WORKSFORME                  |---
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
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--- Comment #2 from Chris <curieux.public at free.fr> ---
LO version 6.0.6.2 still does not apply the Paragraph Tabs Position setting
correctly.

CURRENTLY:
For example, when I enter the following paragraph..
0
        1
                2
                        3
                                4
.. that contains four levels of tabulations, and I set Format > Paragraph >
Tabs > Position to 10 centimeters, I obtain what is visually similar to that:
0
                                         1
                                         2
                                                   3
                                                             4

The horizontal length between “3” and “2” wrongly follows the general
tabulation length (defined in Tools > Options > Writer > General > Tab stops).
[ That is one problem. ]
While “1” applies the right paragraph tabulation length (10 cm).
And “2” applies the right paragraph tabulation length once only, for some
(buggy) reasons).

SHOULD BE:
All the tabulation lengths of the paragraph should fit the paragraph “Tabs /
Position”.
We should have 10 cm between “0” and “1”, 2×10 cm between “0” and “2”, etc.

SUGGESTED CORRECTIONS:

1. RENAMING FOR CLARIFICATION. The setting “Position” in the “Tabs” tab of the
Paragraph panel should be renamed “Lengths”, in order to not confuse the user
(and the developers) with the paragraph indentation setting (in the Paragraph
panel, tab “Indent & spacing”, “Before text” setting) that is conceptually
different in LO.

2. DISPLAY PRIORITIES. When displaying a tabulation character (I mean ‘\t’), LO
Writer should search the paragraph tabs lengths (currently named “Position”)
setting first. If, and only if, no tab length is found in the paragraph
properties (including styles), Writer should use the default general tabulation
length (defined in Tools > Options > Writer > General > Tab stops).

3. INFORM THE USER. The general tabulation length (defined in Tools > Options >
Writer > General > Tab stops) should have a Hint/Tip text that explains this
setting is used by default when either the document does not define a tab
length or the document format does not allow setting the tab lengths (example:
TXT raw format). The same information should be added to the documentation.

[ For information, I wasted an hour testing, updating LO, setting it in
English, writing this additional note, etc. for something I already explained
in details the first time and that is obvious. A real reading would be
appreciated this time. After all, the tabulation concept is not new, it was
applied to the typewriters one hundred years ago, although differently from the
programming text editors. Thank you ]

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