Bug 37033 - FORMATTING paragraph: cannot set "spacing to contents" if border width is 0
Summary: FORMATTING paragraph: cannot set "spacing to contents" if border width is 0
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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: 51730 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-05-09 12:33 UTC by Vincent Van Houtte
Modified: 2014-07-20 09:36 UTC (History)
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Description Vincent Van Houtte 2011-05-09 12:33:03 UTC
Bug report is similar to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32257 - but specific for paragraph styling, and not for frame-styling.

I would like to have a paragraph style that has some margins on top and at the bottom, but no spacing everytime a hard return is used, for example to make a quotation (holding multiple sentences) stand out as a whole, and not every sentence apart from the rest.

Now this is possible to set a border around the paragraph with color white, and in most cases this is sufficient (most documents have a white background I guess) - but this would be cleaner if the spacing could be applied even if the border-width would be '0'.

As an amateur webdeveloper I could compare this to the paragraph style as the HTML-equivalent for <p></p>: with a margin around the <p></p>, but the <p></p> would be able to hold multiple sentences, separated by a <br />.

Not sure if this is feasible - I think it could be a useful feature.

Link to discussion-forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=40851&p=188193#p188058
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:04:51 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
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Comment 2 billhook 2012-07-18 04:24:04 UTC
*** Bug 51730 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 billhook 2012-07-18 04:39:14 UTC
Confirmed the reported behaviour on 3.5.5.
Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-03-05 06:17:04 UTC
Not sure if borders and spacing between text and borders is the right tool to achieve what you want (if I understand right). You should do that with spacing before and after the paragraph and use the option which allows to remove the spacing between two paragraphs of the same style.

Please, to be sure to speak about the same thing, could you attach a test document showing what you want to do?

Best regards. JBF
Comment 5 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-07-20 09:36:53 UTC
No answer from reporter and due to comment #4 closing as WorksForMe.
Please, feel free to reopen if I am wrong.

Best regards. JBF