Bug 164806 - LAYOUT DOC: end of section columned INDEX field not balanced
Summary: LAYOUT DOC: end of section columned INDEX field not balanced
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: bibisected, bisected
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Blocks: Page-Layout-Columns
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Reported: 2025-01-23 00:11 UTC by Justin L
Modified: 2025-02-22 19:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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ooo502-1.doc: with INDEX field on the back page - should be in balanced columns (49.50 KB, application/msword)
2025-01-23 00:11 UTC, Justin L
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Description Justin L 2025-01-23 00:11:48 UTC
Created attachment 198687 [details]
ooo502-1.doc: with INDEX field on the back page - should be in balanced columns

At the end of a section, columns should be balanced. That broke for one special document with a 25.2 commit (backported to 24.8.1)
commit 43cb4360e9e9211bd131178c9f96ec3ce6bae682
Author: Mike Kaganski on Mon Aug 5 16:47:22 2024 +0500
    tdf#162345 Allow splitting, when we have columns

Steps to reproduce:
1.) open ooo502-1.doc

An extra page has been added to the document. On what should be the last page, the INDEX fills the first column, and the second is nearly empty. They should be balanced (and they are after right clicking and updating the index).

Heh. The balancing started as well in 24.8 with mike's prior commit. Not balanced in 5.3, 6.3, 7.3, 7.6. It looks like this worked by accident. So this is just exposing some existing features/flaws and can't really be called a column fix or a column regression.
First balanced with commit ae9e8f3f6d10b0be2fe5b9b238a531b17e0d67da
Author: Mike Kaganski on Sun Apr 7 18:23:52 2024 +0500
    tdf#160526, tdf#160549: fix split conditions at page start


Found by Collabora's mso-test
Comment 1 Justin L 2025-02-22 19:56:26 UTC
confirmed still not correct on master.