Description: in attached demo document there is a bibliography that has shortnames of unequal length. I would like to have the bibliografic entries aligned. Therefore I inserted a Tab-character in the definition of the entry after the shortname for types used and I included a Tab at 3cm from left in the paragraph definition Literaturverzeichnis1. However Problem: You should see the desired alignment is not achieved. More Details in attached demo. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open attached document 2.refresh the literature directory 3.See unaligned entries 4. reassign § to entries in literature directory 5.See aligned entries Detailed testprocedure in demo document Actual Results: mal formed literature directory Expected Results: proper formatting of literature directory Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 5.3.7.2 (x64) Build-ID: 6b8ed514a9f8b44d37a1b96673cbbdd077e24059 CPU-Threads: 4; BS-Version: Windows 6.1; UI-Render: Standard; Layout-Engine: neu; Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); Calc: group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Created attachment 139920 [details] small writer document for reproducing the bug and additional info
It is not a bug, but a little mix-up. Right-click the index - Edit index. In the Entries tab, for both Article and Book excerpt, click the T. Observe that the Tab position is 0. Set it to 3 cm. Now everything is fine. I noticed you had edited the paragraph style Bibliography 1 and set Tabs - Position of 3,00 cm.
Hallo and thank you for checking. However I still think there is a bug. Please note, that the composition of entries book excerpt and article both contain already a TAB after shortname: The TAB should push the following author information to the 3cm position. [][Ku][: ][T][][Au][, ][Ti][, ][Ja] === But this is achieved only after reassigning the § to the two lines in the index... If it was not a bug, why should the entries change when I reassign the §? I also tried deleting the TAB from the entries composition and reinserting the TAB in the same place to make sure that the TAB in the § was already set when inserting the TAB into the entry composition. But that failed too.
(In reply to Heinrich Hartl from comment #3) > Hallo and thank you for checking. > > However I still think there is a bug. Please note, that the composition of > entries book excerpt and article both contain already a TAB after shortname: > The TAB should push the following author information to the 3cm position. > [][Ku][: ][T][][Au][, ][Ti][, ][Ja] > === > But this is achieved only after reassigning the § to the two lines in the > index... > If it was not a bug, why should the entries change when I reassign the §? > > I also tried deleting the TAB from the entries composition and reinserting > the TAB in the same place to make sure that the TAB in the § was already set > when inserting the TAB into the entry composition. But that failed too. I don't understand what you are saying. The entries contained a TAB after shortname, but IT WAS ZERO. Like I said, change the tab stop position from zero to 3 cm in the [T] element. This is the wrong way to do it: "you had edited the paragraph style Bibliography 1 and set Tabs - Position of 3,00 cm."
Sorry for insisting on Bug, thanks for teaching me the facts. I was really blind because I thought to know everything about TAB and that these are part of §-style. I guess a better documentation could have kept me on the right path. I am willing to contribute efforts from my side to improve documentation. I found the existing documentation on bibliography confusing, sometimes trivial frequently redundant and incomplete. To contribute towards a better documentation I need advice on how to do so and also advice when it comes to find out details of the implemented functionality. Any hint is welcome, someone willing to be a tutor/supervisor would be perfect and probably save me time and effort otherwise spent with tedious and error prone researching. Assuming this is the right place to start the first thing I want to target is the help page addressed from the window labelled „Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography“ which is opened when inserting "Table of Contents and Index" -> "Table of Contents, Index or Bibliography ...".
You are very welcome to join the documentation team. I agree that it is often hard and frustrating to find information. Here is the general doc team page: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/join-community/ This page explains a very easy way to contribute help content: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/join-community/update-help-contents/ Note the difference between help content vs. guide books: "It is concise and precise." You are also welcome to evaluate the guide books: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/ The Getting started book for 6.0 is just being finalised. You can talk with the doc team coordinator Olivier Hallot (ohallot) through this channel: https://irc.documentfoundation.org/?settings=#libreoffice-doc