A very annoying bug for me is that just as it comes LibreOffice, on Format > "Page..." > Columns, the "Spacing" between columns is by default "0.00cm", the two (or more) columns with no space between them! By default MS Office is "1,25 cm". It could be for example the half of the left page margin. BTW, at least in Spanish (not sure if apply to English) should be a space between the number and the symbol "cm" (like in, "0.50 cm").
Thanks for your report Pablo. Looks as a useful idea to me. - Set to New. - Version to olders LibreOffice (has been as it is now ever since the beginning) - Little update fr summary. (By the way: how simple it looks, it could be more complicated in the code because filters _may_ use the existing defaults. I'm not sure. Just a note.) Cheers, Cor
I was trying to come back to life this bug, maybe just creating a simple patch, but is not an easy task just only finding the code where this value is set... It's a pity, a LibreOffice developer could resolve this in 5'...
(In reply to Pablo AB from comment #2) > I was trying to come back to life this bug, maybe just creating a simple > patch, but is not an easy task just only finding the code where this value > is set... It's a pity, a LibreOffice developer could resolve this in 5'... Hi Pablo, For sure if you have set the initial steps for development - downloading source and making a build (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development) - ask your question on IRC or the developers list and for sure someone will be glad to give you the proper pointers. Great if you can look at this! Cor
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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and the updated current version is LibreOffice 5.1.6.2. The problem is there, here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/vYaUmDP.png I'm using LibreOffice since more than 10 years (hen OpenOffice) and Im pretty sure this issue was there from the beginning of times. The funny thing is that for someone how knows this is a trivial bug, maybe just changing 0 to 5 mm on a XML of default values...
Adding keyword needsUXeval to get comments from UX team to find a better default value.
We recently discussed this at a meeting a checked the default columns spacing from other competing word processors and came to a conclusion about it. @Heiko: what was the concluded amount we agreed on?
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/09/26/default-margins-users-apply-libreoffice-writer/ We didn't ask about column gap but 0.5cm sounds like a good solution for A4 (used by Scribus, Latex does 10pt by default).
Here are the defaults from competing word processors Calligra - 0.6cm (0.24") TextMaker - 0.24" WPS - 0.75cm (0.3") Word 2010 - 0.5" Wordperfect - 0.5"
We decided in the design team to go with 0.5cm as default for column spacing.
heiko tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=420452e56c2f18b85e6a59dbba80c06d96e28abd tdf#67670 Change default column spacing to 0.5cm It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Does this setting extend to sections as well? I‘m not on a pre release build to test. Expected behavior would be using the same value as for a global two column layout. Steps to check: - Create a new document in Writer. - Insert > Section… - Tab Columns > Set it to two => should use spacing of 0.5cm between them
(In reply to Yannick.D from comment #13) > Does this setting extend to sections as well? Yes, the default for spacing between columns in sections is now 0.5cm (or the equivalent depending on chosen unit).
(In reply to Pablo AB from comment #0) > BTW, at least in Spanish (not sure if apply to English) should be a space > between the number and the symbol "cm" (like in, "0.50 cm"). True, it is so established by the SI. However, if you see it without a space in your interface it may be due to a locale issue. I see "0,50 cm" on my end.