Description: Tabs seem to be hard-coded as "centre", even though default (Format/Paragraph/Tabs) is Left Steps to Reproduce: 1.open new document 2. 3. Actual Results: stays centre Expected Results: to reflect paragraph settings Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: [Information automatically included from LibreOffice] Locale: en-GB Module: TextDocument [Information guessed from browser] OS: Linux (All) OS is 64bit: yes Version: 7.6.2.0.0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: aeea6aac5683bcbafca0dcd474319bf1b9bd70f7 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded
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The default marker (when no discrete tab stops have been defined) is the smaller inverted T ("up tack"). Once you define discrete tab stops at various positions with various Types, you will see bigger markers used instead, which allows us to tell them apart. This was the same in OOo 3.3. I don't think it's possible to change the default tab type for the whole document / the whole of Writer, there is no option in Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > General. If the default, small up tack marker is changed to reflect the default left Type, we'd have to make sure it also works for when using complex text layout like RTL (automatically changed to right Type). UX/Design team, what do you think?
Created attachment 189357 [details] Ruler with center tab and default tab (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #3) > The default marker (when no discrete tab stops have been defined) is the > smaller inverted T ("up tack"). The screenshot illustrates the situation. > I don't think it's possible to change the default tab type... Different question but possible per default template. > If the default, small up tack marker is changed to reflect the default left > Type, we'd have to make sure it also works for when using complex text > layout like RTL (automatically changed to right Type). The 'up tack' marker should probably not get mixed up with the 'tab' marker. The latter tab stop as inserted via paragraph attribute defines where the tab ends (and how the text flows at this stop) while the first shows the position where every single tab character ends up. We could change the up tack into a vertical ruler, for example. But I like the current design (and if we follow MSO and introduce a bar tab stop this would be wrong anyway). And RTL/LTR definitely needs to be considered. MSO does not show any symbol for the default tab stop.
I guess I don't understand Eimar's request. Is it: 1) replace the default, smaller up tacks that denote default tab starts with a left marker of same size, so it better shows what kind the default it is; or 2) some other issue with custom tab stops created in Format > Paragraph > Tabs not showing the correct larger marker?
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. It's a minor issue since the automatic tab stop indicator are tiny and not shown at all under Windows (likewise MSO does). However we agreed that a proper angle pointing left- or right wards depending on the text flow removes potential confusion.