LibreOffice (and OpenOffice.org) used to allow line spacing in paragraph styles to be set to one-tenth of a point. However, for the last few releases, LO automatically rounds off whatever figure is entered. Although these are small numbers, they mean that a font is displayed in a way contrary to its metrics. For example, an average 12 point font would ordinarily default to 14.4 points of line spacing. However, in the recent releases, it would display as 14 points, which is almost certain to look cramped. This problem can be worked around by setting line spacing proportionally (that is, as a percentage). However, this workaround requires working back and forth, translating between percentages and points to get an exact setting. However, if the field was returned to its earlier setting, designers could work directly with the Fixed line spacing setting, instead of juggling two different measurement systems.
I can confirm with Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+ and Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+; win7 regression against 4.0
reproducible with Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha1+
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d22377ab55675135776d94213ef06f608b71669e tdf#98993 cui: Paragraph dialog: decimals in Line Spacing spinbox It will be available in 5.4.0. 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.
fixed on master
*** Bug 98967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=29e18f08e9c8729d285feb992ea2c1f71fb7e618&h=libreoffice-5-3 tdf#98993 cui: Paragraph dialog: decimals in Line Spacing spinbox It will be available in 5.3.1. 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.
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=01a68ee89809556125077b17a9055038be3a240d&h=libreoffice-5-2 tdf#98993 cui: Paragraph dialog: decimals in Line Spacing spinbox It will be available in 5.2.6. 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.