Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 98464
Right tabulator wraps text at preceeding tabulator position
Last modified: 2009-02-20 12:56:45 UTC
While expectations may differ, I'd consider this as a bug: Some text aligned at a right tabulator (e.g. in a header line) wraps to the next line (left aligned) if the text's left margin exceeds the position of the centre tabulator. While at first this may seem plausible, I'd consider that inconsistent, because the text at the first (left) tabuÂlator would have to wrap for the same reason at the position of the centre tabulator. I could also agree with the wrapping if there is actually text at the centre tabulator, but a tabulator by itself is a non-printing character. So as nothing happens if left-aligned text crosses a tabulator position, there should happen nothing if a right-aligned text crosses a tabulator position (from the right). However currently it causes a line break, just as is the tabulator stops would define table columns.
Created attachment 59661 [details] Sample text file showing the effect (description is sub-optimal)
Already tracked as issue 13366. It is the same problem / root cause. Feel free to add your comment there. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 13366 ***
Closing duplicate.