Most people using inches subdivide them into halves and quarters, etc. However, Libreoffice has no option for dividing the rulers into eighths. This poor design decision makes Libreoffice unusable for anything other than half-inches and is a major flaw. I'm not sure if it's the right category. Operating System: All Version: unspecified
If I understand correctly the minimal unit on the ruler should be 1/8 inch - currently the minimal unit is 1/10 inch. If this is the problem I have already made the adjustments necessary in my local build. The change needed is small so I guess there should not be any problem to bring the change to the next 4.1 and 4.0 release. Regarding your poor design remarks you have to understand that most of developers aren't used to use imperial units and don't know the norms there - so this is where we also rely on users to tell us if there is something wrong.
Tomaž Vajngerl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fdd102a6daee854d987926bec1af55a17cfc8aee fdo#68689 Sub-divide ruler ticks into 1/8 insted of 1/10 for inch 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.
Any reason not to allow 1/16 of an inch? Physical rulers are typically subdivided into 16ths e.g. http://www.mathatube.com/measurement-reading-a-ruler-starderd-unite.html
Well, this would require additional changes in ruler as tick divider would need to be 62,5 (125/2) which is not an integer and there is no MAP_10000TH_INCH. I will try to change this in master to 1/16 but for LO 4.1 I will only change it to 1/8 as this is really a simple change.
Tomaž Vajngerl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=943961d67ebc73ed6e87921f8b681bb057e8fd4c&h=libreoffice-4-1 fdo#68689 Sub-divide ruler ticks into 1/8 insted of 1/10 for inch It will be available in LibreOffice 4.1.2. 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.
So this bug is FIXED?
I will still try 1/16 inch subdivider.
1/16 is now supported in master.