[Bug 164199] Control of inter-paragraph spacing for same-style paragraphs - beyond suppression

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164199

--- Comment #14 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #12)
> That toggle exists for interoperability with MS Word.

Well, I would say it exists because it's an important feature... we may have
noticed that because MS Word had it and we didn't.

> The space between paragraphs is given by the paragraph style.

The suggestion is to distinguish between the space between paragraphs of the
same style, as opposed the space to paragraphs of another style (below and
above).

> For that purpose there are the paragraph styles "List N Start", "List N
> Cont" and "List N End". They are intended that the user can set the desired
> distances.

That's exactly what we should fix. Currently, we would need to artifically
create 3 styles, while in fact - it is a single style. Moreover, with that
style applied, we would need to change list items' style whenever we rearrange
items in the list.

Without the "Do not add space etc." toggle, we would need the 3 styles even for
the no-inter-paragraph-style case.

> But
> you are right in regard of the number of needed styles. The questions is,
> whether that is worth the developer effort.

IIANM, I believe most of the work has already been done for supporting the
toggle. We already need to have special handling based on whether two
paragraphs are of the same or of different styles. The extension from a toggle
to a numeric option would require _some_ work, but I should think it is not
_that_ much work.

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