[libreoffice-users] Re: Tabs and tab stops in text boxes

Hi, Rémy,

I got back to working with tabs again today.

And you appear to be right, they only work if you manually enter them 
into the dialogue box.

Even that doesn't appear to work 100% correctly.  Let's say you have a 
text box where the right edge of the box is at 7.50"  Do you think you 
can put a right tab at 7.50"?  Nope.  It will wrap to the next line, at 
the first tab stop.

You have to enter 7.49".

I did a bit of experimenting in Open Office, current version, appears to 
be the same thing.  :-(

This testing was done earlier today, and I found a couple other "little" 
things that don't seem quite right either.  I wish I could remember what 
they were, but I didn't take the time to write them down.  But I did 
find it disappointing.

I so want to use LO, and by extension OO, but LO always leaves me with 
the feeling it's "not quite ready for Prime Time".

The little things like this tab issue just leave me so frustrated, 
there's no enjoyment for me.     Let's add the unfixed/ignored bugs to 
the list.  :-(



On 9/5/17 7:15 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fedora 25
> LO 5.3.4.2
>
> Tab stops in a text box seem to work only if you set them up via Format
> > Paragraph and enter them manually. Entering tab stops via the ruler
> bar is useless when it comes to the text boxes. Additionally, if you
> setup some tabs in a box (via Format > Paramgraph) and click into the
> box, even though they are set, they will not appear on the ruler.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Rémy Gauthier.
>
> Le mardi 05 septembre 2017 à 12:58 -0600, Ken Springer a écrit :
> > OX X 10.11.6 El Capitan
> >
> > LO 5.3.6.1
> >
> > Do they work?  I haven't been able to make them work up to this point.  :-(

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