Created attachment 158730 [details] test file to show confusing positioning of comments in documents with two columns This is a request for a better design how comments in documents with two and more text columns are displayed. See test file attached. As you can see, the comment boxes are positioned according to the text line number 2,4,10,11,12, but this gets confusing, when more than one column is used. Solution would be not to prioritize the 1st column but to treat al columns equal. So, comment order should be 10,11,2,12,4. Furthermore, it would be better not to overlap the horizontal dashed lines. While writer highlights the right line, when I use mouse over, I cannot make a distinction when printing a document with comments...
may be make comments as tooltips on text in that case...
Created attachment 158771 [details] Same document opened with MSO No need to introduce design tricks, just sort the comments according the actual position in the document rather it's sequence.
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Opened the testfile, saved it in various versions (odt, doc), copied content into a new odt-file and made 2 columns - and the initial problem keeps existing. So this is not solved atm. Installed LO-Version: Version: 7.2.5.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 20(Build:2) CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Ubuntu package version: 1:7.2.5-0ubuntu0.21.10.3 Calc: threaded
I checked to old document I uploaded here. And I made a new document with the same columns using the same way of adding comments. The problem is still there. Version: 7.6.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 60(Build:2) CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.2; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Ubuntu package version: 4:7.6.5-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 Calc: threaded