[Bug 165971] Need ability to anchor a callout endpoint to a piece of text or other content

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165971

--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #3)
> Seems like the anchor of the call-out should be either 'as character' or to
> an established anchor point on shape object.

Well, that would be similar, but I'm not sure if its exactly the right analogy.
Suppose I have a presentation slide with a bullet point:

                                +-------+
                                |callout|
                               -+-------+
* The quick brown fox jumped  /
  over the lazy dog.

and the wrapping is automatic, i.e. no line break within the bullet point. I
want my callout to be anchored to the paragraph.

If I were to anchor it to the '.' after dog, the callout-leg  would overlap the
two words "fox" and "jumped"; but if I were to anchor it after "jumped", and
later, I were to add a bit more text to the first line or remove a further
bullet point down the line, I may now have (ignoring the callout):

* The qui-ck brown fox     
  jumped over the lazy 
  dog.

and if I were to draw the callout, I would be back to the situation of the
callout-leg covering some of my text.

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