Bug 164134 - Spacing from number to text in numbered list grows after 100th entry
Summary: Spacing from number to text in numbered list grows after 100th entry
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords:
: 164473 169641 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Bullet-Number-Outline-Lists
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Reported: 2024-12-03 00:07 UTC by Dante Igashu
Modified: 2025-12-09 21:04 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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2024-12-05 12:21 UTC, Buovjaga
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WPS Office (no BS) list (87.84 KB, image/png)
2025-12-09 16:28 UTC, Danat
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LO Writer (BS) list (62.66 KB, image/png)
2025-12-09 17:06 UTC, Danat
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LO Bullets and Numbering... dialog Position panel, adjust Tab stop (27.46 KB, image/png)
2025-12-09 17:35 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Position panel adjusting tab stop for numbering (243.49 KB, image/png)
2025-12-09 17:41 UTC, V Stuart Foote
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Video (10.97 MB, video/mp4)
2025-12-09 20:25 UTC, Danat
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File in the video (6.20 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-12-09 20:25 UTC, Danat
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LO Writer (BS) list 2.0 (59.74 KB, image/png)
2025-12-09 20:55 UTC, Danat
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File of LO Writer (BS) list 2.0 (6.18 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-12-09 20:56 UTC, Danat
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WPS Office (no BS) list (5.03 MB, video/mp4)
2025-12-09 21:03 UTC, Danat
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Description Dante Igashu 2024-12-03 00:07:01 UTC
Hello!

This bus has been present in LibreOffice for years, but I had never reported it before because it did not exactly bother me, but now, I need it to be gone, because it makes my important document look odd (; b).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create new "odt" file
2. Insert: right-click>List>Numbering 123 List Style
3. Continue adding new elements to the list: right-click>List>Add to List
4. Reach 100 elements in the list

OS: EndeavourOS (Arch Linux Based)
LibreOffice Version: libreoffice-fresh 24.8.3.2-1
Language: English.

Expected Behaviour: 
     The numbers on the list should always look like this:
          10. Title
     
     Instead, some sometimes looks also like this for no apparent reason, at random:
          10.  Title

And I don't really know why, considering that I had done that in different files with not much formatting (font=Arial, font size=11, all margins=0.59", alignment=justified).

And, without any exceptions, when reaching one-hundred elements in the list, the formatting always gets changed to something like this:

          10.     Title

Note: I am available to answer questions, if necessary.

Thanks In Advance!
Comment 1 mkt 2024-12-03 11:54:23 UTC
Hi Dante,

I could reproduce the behavior when reaching one-hundred elements in the list in both 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) and 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64).  However, the random behavior did not happen to me.

I have set the status to NEW.


Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: ce4ae4f082d8fe80da242836c57d55a456eac5e0
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 24.8.2.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 0f794b6e29741098670a3b95d60478a65d05ef13
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Aryeh 2024-12-04 23:21:45 UTC
I also found this when reaching 100 elements, but not the random behavior.

Version: 24.8.3.2 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92
CPU threads: 8; OS: macOS 14.5; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2024-12-05 12:21:32 UTC
Created attachment 197948 [details]
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After activating numbered list, paste in the content of this text file.

Already seen in oldest of linux-43all repo.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2024-12-05 19:12:54 UTC
Comment from dev chat:

that repeats again and again - the tab after the number means that the following text jumps to the next tab stop; when the first tab stop is too close to hold the list number itself, the second tab stop starts to work
Comment 5 zcrhonek 2024-12-27 08:16:40 UTC
*** Bug 164473 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Justin L 2025-08-22 01:46:18 UTC
This is a duplicate of either bug 56258, bug 162133, or bug 126690.

Bottom line (quoting bug 162133 comment15):
Ultimately, everything depends on the document content. As soon as you change font or font size, or involve sub-levels, then every assumption made gets thrown out of the window. For me, this is a both WONTFIX and NOTABUG.

P.S. Microsoft Office does the exact same thing given the same font/size.
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2025-12-09 08:47:13 UTC
*** Bug 169641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Danat 2025-12-09 11:12:31 UTC

(In reply to Justin L from comment #6)

> Ultimately, everything depends on the document content. As soon as you
> change font or font size, or involve sub-levels, then every assumption made
> gets thrown out of the window. For me, this is a both WONTFIX and NOTABUG.

No, you're wrong. This behavior is total BS, I too got discomforted by it
Comment 9 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-09 14:31:32 UTC
Agree with the => NAB, and => WF to do anything different when document of list items exceeds 100 list items. The list "numbering" passing over list <Tab> stop just means you need to set a smaller font or increase tab stop spacing for your list style/direct formatting.

Behavior of spacing as implemented now is reasonable and consistent, tracks with comments on see also bug 162133
Comment 10 Danat 2025-12-09 14:56:15 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #9)
> Agree with the => NAB, and => WF to do anything different when document of
> list items exceeds 100 list items. The list "numbering" passing over list
> <Tab> stop just means you need to set a smaller font or increase tab stop
> spacing for your list style/direct formatting.
> 
> Behavior of spacing as implemented now is reasonable and consistent, tracks
> with comments on see also bug 162133

Respectfully, don't live in your own world. Think how people feel about things. If people think something is BS - it's probably BS indeed
Comment 11 Buovjaga 2025-12-09 15:33:58 UTC
(In reply to Danat from comment #10)
> (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #9)
> > Agree with the => NAB, and => WF to do anything different when document of
> > list items exceeds 100 list items. The list "numbering" passing over list
> > <Tab> stop just means you need to set a smaller font or increase tab stop
> > spacing for your list style/direct formatting.
> > 
> > Behavior of spacing as implemented now is reasonable and consistent, tracks
> > with comments on see also bug 162133
> 
> Respectfully, don't live in your own world. Think how people feel about
> things. If people think something is BS - it's probably BS indeed

Also remember that people created this world & culture that we are all now modeling digitally.
Comment 12 Danat 2025-12-09 16:27:25 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #11)
> (In reply to Danat from comment #10)
> > (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #9)
> > > Agree with the => NAB, and => WF to do anything different when document of
> > > list items exceeds 100 list items. The list "numbering" passing over list
> > > <Tab> stop just means you need to set a smaller font or increase tab stop
> > > spacing for your list style/direct formatting.
> > > 
> > > Behavior of spacing as implemented now is reasonable and consistent, tracks
> > > with comments on see also bug 162133
> > 
> > Respectfully, don't live in your own world. Think how people feel about
> > things. If people think something is BS - it's probably BS indeed
> 
> Also remember that people created this world & culture that we are all now
> modeling digitally.

Word and Google Docs are not role models, and especially not Word. Microsoft apps are all bugged. Google makes good apps, but Docs isn't their main app

I attached WPS Office list example. It has no such BS that LOffice inherited from Word
Comment 13 Danat 2025-12-09 16:28:05 UTC
Created attachment 204534 [details]
WPS Office (no BS) list
Comment 14 Danat 2025-12-09 17:06:07 UTC
Created attachment 204536 [details]
LO Writer (BS) list
Comment 15 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-09 17:35:23 UTC
Created attachment 204538 [details]
LO Bullets and Numbering... dialog Position panel, adjust Tab stop

Simple and necessary to adjust the tab stop for overly long numbering forms that cross default tab stop.
Comment 16 V Stuart Foote 2025-12-09 17:41:53 UTC
Created attachment 204539 [details]
Position panel adjusting tab stop for numbering
Comment 17 Danat 2025-12-09 20:25:42 UTC
Created attachment 204542 [details]
Video
Comment 18 Danat 2025-12-09 20:25:56 UTC
Created attachment 204543 [details]
File in the video
Comment 19 Danat 2025-12-09 20:27:58 UTC
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #16)
> Created attachment 204539 [details]
> Position panel adjusting tab stop for numbering

So I reproduced the bug. Whether it's a bug or not - up to your judgement. I showed how it looks with me

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cil4F2kokoAU9zXECX24e_5Q9sm94kqe?usp=sharing
Comment 20 Danat 2025-12-09 20:55:22 UTC
Created attachment 204544 [details]
LO Writer (BS) list 2.0
Comment 21 Danat 2025-12-09 20:56:13 UTC
Created attachment 204545 [details]
File of LO Writer (BS) list 2.0
Comment 22 Danat 2025-12-09 21:03:05 UTC
Created attachment 204546 [details]
WPS Office (no BS) list
Comment 23 Danat 2025-12-09 21:04:00 UTC
WPS lists are awesome. Honey for the eyes

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vdsHjBREr1PY6Hxdkho8jvrvTFOP6FyY/view?usp=sharing