Description:
I have two styles, used for setting poetry, that involve a Before Text indent of .30" and a First Line indent of -.30"; this results in the rather infrequent runover lines being hung. For the paperback version, LibreOffice works flawlessly to do this. This hanging indentation is also important for books output to ePub so that, if read on a smaller device or in larger type, the runover lines will be clear. Runover lines occur far more frequently on digitally read devices.

According to what I am reading, checking the Automatic box beneath these settings will result in the First Line setting being ignored. That's not what I want. But with the Automatic box UNchecked, the negative First Line indent is still ignored, resulting in all lines starting with a .30" indentation and the first line not pulled back to the left by -.30".

FORMATTING, EPUB, EXPORT

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a NewLine paragraph style with Before Text .30", After Text .00", and First Indent -.30"; uncheck Automatic.
2. Apply style to several lines of text that extend past the document margins.
3. Export to ePub (2.0 or 3.0 does not matter) using Page Break segmenting.
4. View the ePub output.


Actual Results:
Title

     First line of poem that extends past the margin
     that should be hung.

Expected Results:
Title

First line of poem that extends past the margin
     that should be hung.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
It seems this is only due to a failure of the ePub output module to recognize the status of the Automatic check box; instead of reading First Line indent when unchecked, it ignores it whether unchecked or not and reads only the Before Text setting (which, in this example, indents (hangs) all lines, not just any runovers past the first line).

From Help - Libre Office:

Indent

Before text

Enter the amount of space that you want to indent the paragraph from the page margin. If you want the paragraph to extend into the page margin, enter a negative number. In Left-to-Right languages, the left edge of the paragraph is indented with respect to the left page margin. In Right-to-Left languages, the right edge of the paragraph is indented with respect to the right page margin.

After text

Enter the amount of space that you want to indent the paragraph from the page margin. If you want the paragraph to extend into the page margin, enter a negative number. In Left-to-Right languages, the right edge of the paragraph is indented with respect to the right page margin. In Right-to-Left languages, the left edge of the paragraph is indented with respect to the left page margin.

First line

Indents the first line of a paragraph by the amount that you enter. >>>>To create a hanging indent enter a positive value for "Before text" and a negative value for "First line".<<<< To indent the first line of a paragraph that uses numbering or bullets, choose "Format - Bullets and Numbering - Position".

Automatic

Automatically indents a paragraph according to the font size and the line spacing. The setting in the First Line box is ignored.