Created attachment 196641 [details] Screenshot Whether using the Comment style or direct formatting, the spacing above/below is ignored.
I confirm behaviour you can see in the screenshot, but to be correct problem is only related to first (spacing above) and last paragraph (spacing below) of a comment. And if you have a lot of comments, free space above first paragrph and below last paragraph might be annoying. So I won't support a change of current behaviour, alsthoug it might be see as an inconsistent behaviour. So I would say WONTFIX
See Also has Calc bugs, but is the code really shared with Writer comments?
I would say this is a plain and simple bug. Probably due to how we didn't use to have paragraph styles for comments. I'd mark this as NEW. A question, though: Won't this all go away when comments start to be rendered in the sidebar, or something-like-the-sidebar? I seem to remember that being the plan. ----------- (In reply to Dieter from comment #1) > if you have a lot of comments, free space above first > paragrph and below last paragraph might be annoying. If this annoying to a user, then they would change the style so as not to have this spacing above or below; and if they do want this spacing, they should be able to have it. So, I disagree with a WONTFIX. Unless you have an argument in principle against this spacing? I will say, though, that given your preference, you might be interested in bug 164199; if that were resolved, it would be easy to control intra-paragraph spacing while keeping the spacing before the first and after the last to 0 (or to an arbitrary different amount).
We discussed the topic in the design meeting. Some expect spacing to work on the first/last paragraph others not. The issue is a consequence of using styles for comments, implemented for bug 103064, which is a bit uncommon. Maxim, what is your take?