Context-free description: Consider the attached DOC file. It contains a shape with a single line of text: some untabbed text, and some text after a tab. The shape paragraph direction is RTL and the tab should be a Left tab at 13.25cm . Unfortunately, when the document is opened in LO Writer, the tab is created as a Right tab. That causes the text to overflow to a second line. As tabulation in text boxes is typically intended to produce precise positioning, such overflow is likely to interfere severely with the layout of documents with such features, especially forms. Now for some background: This is the first of several bugs separating out the issuess we see in the infamous DOC from in bug 50301. The attached document is attachment 62050 [details] with the following changes: * All tables, text and images removed * Everything on the second column removed * All lines, shapes and frames removed - except for the top shape of almost-whole-page width - removed * Number of columns reduced to 1 * Page layout changed to portrait * Added a bit of explanatory text * Kept one of two tabs in the single remaining shape * Replaced the text of that single shape with some English * Removed irrelevant styles and DF * Changed the Normal style font to Liberation Sans
Please attach reduced document. Thank you.
Created attachment 196191 [details] DOC file exhibiting the bug when opened in Writer When you open this in MS word you'll notice the text fits on the first line; when you open it in LO Writer you'll notice it overflows to the second. Again, this is because of the mis-direction of the tab.