Bug 128709 - Dashed Fill Character in Paragraph Style > Tabs has wrong vertical alignment
Summary: Dashed Fill Character in Paragraph Style > Tabs has wrong vertical alignment
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.3.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium minor
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Reported: 2019-11-11 11:39 UTC by greenandpleasant2000-query
Modified: 2019-11-11 14:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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TOC showing vertical alignment of dash fill character (18.83 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-11-11 11:39 UTC, greenandpleasant2000-query
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Description greenandpleasant2000-query 2019-11-11 11:39:13 UTC
Created attachment 155700 [details]
TOC showing vertical alignment of dash fill character

If you use a dash as the fill character in Paragraph style > Tab, it appears vertically-aligned in a centred position. However, this should be bottom-aligned, surely?
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2019-11-11 12:23:14 UTC
(In reply to greenandpleasant2000-query from comment #0)
> Created attachment 155700 [details]
> TOC showing vertical alignment of dash fill character
> 
> If you use a dash as the fill character in Paragraph style > Tab, it appears
> vertically-aligned in a centred position. However, this should be
> bottom-aligned, surely?

Why it should be bottom-aligned. Tabs are filled with hyphens.
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2019-11-11 14:21:12 UTC
Agree with Xisco here, the fill is predefined to use a 'Hyphen-Minus' (0x002d) in the font of the style. Its vertical position will be as the font defines it against the text base line.

The 'Full-stop' (0x002e) is also available predefined and takes its position as defined in the font on the base line. As does the predefined 'Low Line' (0x005f), but that results in a solid line.

If you want the effect of a dash aligned to bottom, you'll need to modify the selected "Contents" style and use a "character" separator--I would suggest the 'Modifier letter low macron' (0x02cd) "ˍ" as a choice to get this effect.