[Libreoffice] Bringing some sanity to interline spacing

[Eike Rathke]

Hi Caolán,

On Monday, 2011-09-05 13:59:16 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 01:22 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 02:39:37PM +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> > > > But before going there, I just need to make sure that we are on the same
> > > > page wrt keeping the new algorithm and moving on to fixing whatever
> > > > needs fixing.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure we want to keep the new algorithm as default, given that
> > > there are probably many areas in several applications to be adapted to
> > > the new behavior. Maybe best we make that an option until necessary
> > > changes are done. Opinions?
> > 
> > That fine with me, even having the new algorithm as an off by default
> > option would be fine.
> 
> *speculation*, presumably this would have to be bubbled down at an
> OutputDevice level or something.

Sounds like an approach, though I don't have any idea how that could be
accomplished given the different layout engines.

However, I fear that too many tweaks exist in application code because
of all those "in my Excel|Word|PowerPoint it is a pixel taller/smaller"
complaints. While the casual user maybe could be convinced that now we
do it the right way, for forms and legal or professional documents this
may indeed be a problem, especially if a print-out suddenly consists of
less pages or forms aren't lined up with pages anymore.

  Eike

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