[Libreoffice] patch for preserving the table alignment

[Noel Power]

On 18/07/11 10:41, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:35 +0100, Noel Power wrote:
>> Hi Caolán
>>
>> could you have a look at this patch
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/writer/commit/?id=95351a519bec2833f5d936c20e3916a4e283b0f6
>>
>> This should be a nice stroll down memory lane for you as it seems
>> related to http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1291, yes
>> issue #1291 !!!
> Hmm, well I don't remember the code, I do remember the document itself,
> cause its a nasty.
>
> My intent with the SetFmtAttr is apparently to get a floating frame
> which shrinks right down the the size of the table contained in it,
> reset the positioning of the table so the left of the table is 0 from
> the left of the frame and the right 0 from the right of the frame so
> that it completely fills it widthwise.
>
> If "FULL" isn't actually "full width of the container", but automatic in
> a full-width-of-the-container, but clip-to-the-page-width, sort of way,
> that's a pain :-)
>
lets forget this, I see from trying this on a different machine I get 
the same (good) results as if I used the patch mentioned above e.g. this 
seems to be a font selection problem. I got confused because the word 
previous to the word that appears wrongly on the next line just happened 
to be close to the page margin ( and and also the column width was wrong 
). The change in the patch above allowed the column width to be closer 
to what it is in MSO and the display improved. So, while I do still 
believe there is an issue with the 'FULL' attribute and the fact it 
seems to truncate the table width and and column widths. However.. it 
seems that issue doesn't actually really affect the document in question 
and I suppose it's better I don't mess more with things I don't 
understand well enough :-(

thanks for looking though

Noel