Bug 46177 - EDITING: Incorrect Behaviour of Direct Cursor in Right-Aligned Paragraphs
Summary: EDITING: Incorrect Behaviour of Direct Cursor in Right-Aligned Paragraphs
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Whiteboard: BSA
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Blocks: Direct-Cursor
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Reported: 2012-02-16 07:56 UTC by Harald Koester
Modified: 2023-10-25 03:14 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Koester 2012-02-16 07:56:27 UTC 
Problem description: 

[1] Open new text document.
[2] Enable Direct Cursor with option “Tabs”: Tools > Options... > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids > Direct cursor. Then “OK”
[3] Display Nonprinting Characters in order to observe the result.
[4] Choose “Align right”. → [5a] or [5b]
[5a] Click into the first third of the first line. Only a few tabs beginning in the third third to the end of the line are inserted.
[5b] Click into the third third of the first line. A lot of tabs beginning in the first third to the end of the line are inserted.

Expected behaviour: 
Change of alignment to left-aligned and insert of tabs from the left page margin if you click with the Direct Cursor into an empty and right aligned paragraph.

With Direct Cursor option “Tabs and spaces” the behaviour is equal and hence also not correct. 

Bug already exists in Ver. 3.4.x.
             
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Comment 1 sasha.libreoffice 2012-05-21 04:52:29 UTC 
Thanks for bugreport
Reproduced in 3.5.3 on Fedora 64 bit
Comment 2 Harald Koester 2012-11-28 15:08:50 UTC 
Bug still exists in Version 3.6.3.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:52:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Harald Koester 2015-01-06 12:08:11 UTC 
Bug still exists with version 4.3.5 under Win 7.
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2016-01-17 20:04:35 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Harald Koester 2016-01-18 19:03:58 UTC 
Bug still exists in version 5.0.4 with Win7.
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 14:27:07 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Harald Koester 2017-03-15 15:25:14 UTC 
Bug still exists in version 5.3.0 (Win7).
Bug already exists in version 3.3.0. Hence inherted from OOo.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2018-10-09 02:53:10 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Harald Koester 2018-10-09 10:25:46 UTC 
Bug still exists in version 6.1.2 (64 bit, Win 10).
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2019-10-10 02:39:37 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 12 Harald Koester 2019-10-24 13:16:30 UTC 
Bug still exists in version 6.3.2 (64 bit, Win 10).
Comment 13 QA Administrators 2021-10-24 03:43:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 14 Michael Warner 2021-10-24 13:04:47 UTC 
I'm not sure I understand what Direct Cursor behavior is expected to be, but it does seem to be treating the first line differently from other lines in the manner described.

Version: 7.2.2.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 02b2acce88a210515b4a5bb2e46cbfb63fe97d56
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 15 QA Administrators 2023-10-25 03:14:18 UTC 
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