Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 85257
indents not fit the habit of chinese people
Last modified: 2020-12-09 20:53:31 UTC
In Indents & Spacing tab of paragraph dialog, There is a first line setting and a automatic checkbox. When Automatic is checked, the first line indents of the paragraph is set to 1 Chinese character(seems 2 English characters in English version). This doesn't fit the Chinese Text specification. Chinese Text always indents 2 Chinese characters in the first line. I think this setting should modify to 2 Chinese characters, at least in Chinese locale. I don't know the default first line indents of western language. Can we set it separately in software according the locale setting?
The automatic setting is not depending on the script type - it depends on the current font size. The larger the font is set by the user, the larger the indent will be.
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It should depend on the font size, Chinese indent also depend on font size. But the indent value is too small. double of that value is needed. That value of indent is no use to Chinese people. Because this is a incorrect format in Chinese writing rule. All Chinese user will think this is a defect. In a Chinese article, no matter what font size the character is, always 2 characters of that font size indent in the first line.
Hi Zhu Lihua, please ask our developers if they already know the problem. I think I remember, that I heard about this issue before. At least Hu Caiyong mentioned it in his keynote at the last OOoCon in Barcelona as an example for missing features for Chinese language. ;-) It's likely, that our OS department has it already on the to do list. Peter
Hi, Peter, Yes, this is a known old issue. But it's still there till OOo2.4. And I didn't find the record in issuetracker. As far as I know, all the other Chinese word processor implemented this feature, include WPS office and MS word.
The "automatic first line indent" flag sets the first line indent based on the current font size and the line spacing of the paragraph. Please note that changing this can result in layout incompatibilities for existing documents which make use of this feature.
As redflagzhulihua said, current behavior of automatic indent doesn't meet the habit of Chinese. Most text documents and web pages in China, the first line of a paragraph is always indented 2 Chinese characters. So I think it is better to change current behavior of automatic indent when the locale is China.
Reopening - maybe there could be a solution for Chinese OOo (or Chinese documents).
MRU->FME: could you please do an evaluation of how this could be solved for Chinese habits? Maybe in Chinese OOo UI, automatic indent could mean two times the font height? Or in Chinese character format?
It seems that the problem is not solved yet in OOo 3.0. I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement. Without correct indent on first line of a Chinese paragraph, typesetting Chinese text is extremely tedious! And this is one the most important reasons why Chinese users doesn't OpenOffice.org to write documents. I think introduce the "character unit" into the "first line indent" function may solve the problem. About Character Unit and Chinese character: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Character_unit
See issue 126476
see issue: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126476
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 126476 ***