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

Hi Ken,

are you working in Writer? Then I wonder, why you are working with a 
text box and not with a frame? A text box is a graphic object with a 
restricted edit engine.

Kind regards
Regina

Ken Springer schrieb:
> 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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