[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 95807] Writer RFE: achieve both left and right alignment of text within the same paragraph style

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95807

--- Comment #2 from RichardNeill <libreoffice at richardneill.org> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> The enhancement is for handling text within a paragraph style.
> 
> Suspect the limiting factor will end up being ODF standards, as this
> paragraph layout is not achievable as a described style in ODF. So, while it
> could probably be implemented--we'd have to extend ODF to be able to hold it
> in our document archives. Making it somewhat undesirable.

I see what you mean here. However, it is still something that is badly needed,
and really widely requested.

> 
> By the way, yes tab stops are not a very efficient way to do this.  However,
> the layout effect is trivial to achieve using either tables, or frames
> depending on the needs of your document.


I don't think either of these works. It's certainly very inefficient to embed
tables around all lines in a paragraphs. 

Let me give you an example. Here is a document I wrote recently (exported to
pdf from LO):  http://www.richardneill.org/images/electronics_supervision.pdf
Look at the 3rd page (titled "Resistors"), and the small blue side-notes on the
RHS, such as "← Voltage across the resistor". There are very many of these
throughout the document. These should be right-aligned consistently, but as you
can see, they are actually left-aligned with inaccurate bodging with tabs and
spaces.

It's important that the "right-align of partial text" is easy to do (ideally as
simple as a single click on the format button) - and a table is not the way to
do it (partly as it takes time, partly because tables are semantic objects, not
layout objects).

Thanks

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