I would like to see the possibility to use columns as element of the paragraph style. In my opinion that would be useful. E.g.: one could write a thesis using two columns but use no columns in the foot notes. In Latex this can be done effortless. It can make a document look more elegant.
Hello Pieter, Thanks for reporting this issue. I believe the ODF request should be sent to OASIS -> https://issues.oasis-open.org Could you please do it ?
To be fair, usually it's the other way around. :-) First we implement something like this in Writer, and once there is a working implementation, it makes sense to be proposed as a standard ODF feature, moving it from our extension namespace. I agree that the summary is confusing, but I guess that was the intention. OASIS tries to avoid the "designed by committee" disaster, so they would send the reporter back to one of the ODF implementers, I expect. ;-)
I'm sorry if I cause confusion. But I am no more than an very enthusiastic user of LibreOffice and in many ways really not experienced. The introduction of odf 1.3 seemed to me a perfect opportunity to settle this. That can be a wrong thought. But the fact remains that I can not understand why columns are no element of the paragraph styles. What would be, in your opinion, a good approach to handle this issue?
Changing it to NEW based on comment 2
would it make sence to change the title of this bug from: Bug 129019 - feature request for odf 1.3: columns as paragraph style element to Bug 129019 - feature request: columns as paragraph style element