[Libreoffice-qa] Best way to submit suggestions for documentation changes?

Ilmari Lauhakangas ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org
Fri Mar 9 16:33:51 UTC 2018


On 09.03.2018 18:03, Ted Lee wrote:
> I've run into some problems with the Labels feature that perhaps could 
> be remedied by code changes, possibly not easy ones, but just as easily 
> by some warnings to the user.  The first problem is that if you try to 
> manually edit the label dimensions (height, width, number of rows and 
> columns, etc.) and do so in an order that would result in something that 
> doesn't fit on the page, until you get all the fields adjusted to the 
> values you want, the values you get are unpredictable at best.  The 
> second problem is a little harder to reproduce, but it happens when 
> trying to edit the master label itself to replace line feeds with 
> paragraph marks in order to add conditional hidden paragraphs (so as to 
> suppress blank lines.)  More often that not, when I try to do that, I'll 
> get the spinning basketball and even after waiting for several minutes 
> it doesn't go away.  I believe the problem arises when the default font 
> size is too large for the text to fit in the label, but I haven't 
> experimented enough to verify that completely yet (since each trial 
> takes several minutes to make sure it's a real loop and not just 
> something that takes a long time).  In any case, the appropriate quick 
> fix would be to add a note in the documentation along the lines of 
> "Doctor it hurts when I do this...  Don't do that."  Anyway, how do I go 
> about submitting a suggestion for a change in the Help files?
> 

Submit a new bug report for LibreOffice, setting the component to 
Documentation.
Use this if you want to do it from the classic/advanced interface: 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice

Regards,
Ilmari


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