Bug 164298 - Table Frames Interfere with Adjoining Paragraph Borders
Summary: Table Frames Interfere with Adjoining Paragraph Borders
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.0 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium minor
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Keywords: filter:odt
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Blocks: Borders
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Reported: 2024-12-12 12:16 UTC by Alex Kemp
Modified: 2025-12-29 17:58 UTC (History)
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ODT that both describes and includes the bug components (36.96 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-12-12 12:16 UTC, Alex Kemp 		Details
An extended explanation + demonstration of the Bug (58.72 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-12-31 22:48 UTC, Alex Kemp 		Details
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Description Alex Kemp 2024-12-12 12:16:30 UTC 
Created attachment 198081 [details]
ODT that both describes and includes the bug components

In Writer, if a paragraph with inline-border is placed directly below a table-inside-a-frame, then the below-frame spacing of the table-in-frame will be added to the internal top-spacing of the next paragraph, rather than being placed between the two entity’s borders.

An ODT + PDF that both describes & includes the components of this bug are available from Python3docs (see bug4.odt + bug4.pdf at https://github.com/alexkemp9/Python3docs).

This appears to be a Frame bug, and may be identical to Bug 164297 (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164297).
Comment 1 Alex Kemp 2024-12-31 22:48:25 UTC 
Created attachment 198341 [details]
An extended explanation + demonstration of the Bug

The Framed Table “Interferes” with adjoining borders. The bug occurs with anything that is framed and is positioned next to something with a border. The interference ranges from changing bottom- or top-spacing, and can be minor or become splitting off embedded borders from the text to which they are supposed to be attached.

The clearest demonstration of the bug is when the below-frame spacing of the table-in-frame is added to the internal top-spacing of the next paragraph, rather than being placed between the two entity’s borders.

An ODT + PDF that both describes & includes the components of this bug are available from Python3docs (see bug4+.odt + bug4+.pdf at https://github.com/alexkemp9/Python3docs).

This appears to be a Frame bug, and may be identical to Bug 164297 (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164297).
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2025-12-29 17:58:55 UTC 
Confirmed.

Btw. you misremembered here:
"This daft bug has been in place for more than 7 years, and is a Grandparent gift from Apache (if I recall the heredity of LibreOffice correctly)."

The heredity is from Sun Microsystems.

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Build ID: 640a35801612123fa503fa72e8732cfb7e75caca
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