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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Suggestion for improved typographic spacing (Leading) around paragraphs | ||||||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | bobharvey <bobharvey> | ||||
| Component: | formatting | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues | ||||
| Version: | OOO 2.0 Beta2 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||
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Reassigned to requirements. This is a related and interesting remark: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=25857 Created attachment 34724 [details]
as at 2.0.2, important categories all but vanished
Stupid web site - I've attached a picture to the wrong issue.... Sorry No target? Up! I really need this enhancement (space above and bellow overlapping, as an option of course). It's almost impossible to have a constant space bellow a title (for example) as this space depends on the following paragraph style. I hope this will be taken into account very soon. Regards. |
I think that in emulating traditional word processing techniques a bit of flexibility is lost, and I am always tweaking headings. I use styles such as heading 1, heading 2, heading 3 etc, each with characteristic "space before" and "space after" settings. When these are tuned to look correct with a normal 'default' paragraph following it starts to go wrong when headings follow headings. In a well-structured document it is possible to have HEADING 1 HEADING 2 HEADING 3 default text default text default text HEADING 3 default text default text default text At the top there is too much white space among headings 1,2,3 so the result is not as intended. Manual trimming is required. This is a lot of work, and can get lost if styles are modified. I would like to suggest that there be two types of spacing for paragraph styles - fixed and overlapping. The fixed spacing would always be applied, but the overlapping spacing would be applied only if the preceding or following style had no overlapping spacing. If both adjacent styles had overlapping spacing, then they should err.. overlap. Another alterantive would be for each paragraph manually re-spaced to remember the setting as a delta to the style ("style spacing -3 point" for example) rather than a fixed setting. This would allow proportionate response to a style change. But I prefer the 'overlapping' concept, as this would mean I would have to do no manual adjustment when headings followed headings