[libreoffice-users] Re: Making horizontal lines in Writer

Tim, *,

This is not a bug.  Horizontal lines in Writer are a direct paragraph style
assigning a bottom border for the paragraph.  

I would expect it to only be valid in ODF format--there is no reason to
expect LibreOffice ODF (.odt) style elements to be recognized by the export
filtering to generate OOXML (.docx) , or MS binary (.doc) formats.  Or for
the style to be recognized by Microsoft Word in their native ODF
form--although a few of the borders are. 

Writer (or rather the edit engine) provides a Tools --> AutoCorrect Options
--> "Apply border" check box to enable an autocorrect based short cut for
activating a bottom edge border of the current paragraph.  Essentially,
while completing a paragraph, the immediate entry of a triplet of: - (dash),  
_  (underscore),   =  (equal),  *  (asterisk)  ,  ~  (tilde) or  #  (hash) 
each will apply direct formatting creating a bottom edge border for the
paragraph.  Each triplet will generate a different line style.

The actual horizontal border, and its resulting line will vary depending on
the character set and OS, but then the paragraph can be otherwise styled to
control width and color or even  the line style from the Format -->
Paragraph --> Borders panel in the Line section.

Try out triplets of the characters above, and then adjust the Paragraph
border.

And, for OP, as suggested the PDF is the best way to render LibreOffice
documents portable for non-users.



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