Minutes of ESC call 2017-08-17

[khagaroth]

So what's the plan for handling the line spacing changes outfall? After
this change LO is currently unusable as it completely breaks existing
documents and the bugs don't see much activity.

On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Xisco Fauli <xiscofauli at libreoffice.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
> >     + build a write-up of the differences cross-platform (Xisco)
> >       [ almost done, will send to the ML ]
> >
> Basically the line spacing differences across platforms has been reduced
> after this commit[1] ( visual example of an issue fixed by the mentioned
> commit: Windows [2] and Linux [3] ) although there are still some bugs
> showing differences between Linux and Windows [4][5]
> Besides, it seems some documents look different before and after the
> commit now.
> These are the problems I could find in Bugzilla related to the commit:
>
> 1. Some fonts with bad metrics ( [6],[7] ) were displayed better before,
> however the problem needs to be fixed in the fonts, not in LibreOffice,
> thus, NOTOURBUG.
> Note: Khaled also fixed it for OpenSymbol fonts [9].
>
> 2. UI: Some dialogs labels are slightly cropped and vertically cramped
> [9]. Differences look bigger on Linux/Mac than on Windows. This bug [10]
> seems similar.
>
> 3. Web view: Line spacing is smaller than before [11]. This really looks
> like a bug to me.
>
> 4. Calc/PDF: line spacing looks smaller when using line breaks [12].
>
> As a solution, this bug [13] has been suggested.
>
> Regards
>
> [1]
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=
> 34d7602954d4483b3bc9db700e7df2c15348947a
> [2] https://bug-attachments.documentfoundation.org/
> attachment.cgi?id=128520
> [3] https://bug-attachments.documentfoundation.org/
> attachment.cgi?id=128521
> [4] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92502
> [5] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104932
> [6] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107605
> [7] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107888
> [8] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106994#c7
> [9] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107249
> [10] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105860
> [11] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108710
> [12] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106111
> [13] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108891
>
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