Bug 145923 - Indent on paragraph should be measured in different units
Summary: Indent on paragraph should be measured in different units
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Reported: 2021-11-28 06:02 UTC by touchrank
Modified: 2021-12-16 06:07 UTC (History)
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Description touchrank 2021-11-28 06:02:19 UTC 
Indent on paragraph should be measured by n-characters not only by n-CMs, because font size maybe changed during editing.
Comment 1 Ming Hua 2021-11-28 15:21:24 UTC 
(In reply to touchrank from comment #0)
> Indent on paragraph should be measured by n-characters not only by n-CMs,
LibreOffice has been supporting using "Characters/ch" as indent units for a long time.

First enable CJK language support: Tools > Options... dialog, Language Settings > Languages page, Default Languages for Documents section, check "Asian" box.

Then enable using character as unit: Same options dialog, LibreOffice Writer > General page, Settings section, check "Enable char unit" box.

Now in various places for setting indentation one should be able to directly specify number of characters.

> because font size maybe changed during editing.
The indent will use the current font size.  But this feature does not adapt to change of font size *after* setting the number of characters.  So the user needs to adjust indent again if he/she changes font size of already indented paragraph.
Comment 2 Kevin Suo 2021-12-16 06:07:41 UTC 
Mark as WORKSFORME accordingly.

The issue related to the indent not updating upon change of font size is tracked by bug 36709.