https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164199
Bug ID: 164199
Summary: Control of inter-paragraph spacing for same-style
paragraphs - beyond suppression
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Paragraph styles indicate how much space to add before and after each
paragraph; and there is also a binary toggle: "Do not add space between
paragraphs of the same style".
So, there is a recognition that inter-paragraph spacing might be different when
switching between (a sequence of) paragraphs of different styles, and when
continuing from one paragraph to another when both are of the same style; but -
why should this intra-sequence-of-paragraphs behavior have only two
possibilities:
* No space at all
* Same as when switching paragraph styles
?
I believe we need another option - the choice of setting some amount of space
between consecutive paragraphs of the same style.
Specific use cases:
* Lists of items, each of constituting a paragraph. You wan't to have some
spacing between list items - but _more_ spacing between the list and the text
surrounding it.
* Code listing: If your line of code somehow overflows and needs to wrap, you
want there to be very little space (so line spacing is at most single and maybe
even less, e.g. proportional 0.9 or so); and distinguished from this, you set
some space between paragraphs, which correspond to actual non-wrapped lines in
your code. And, again, you want a larger amount of space between the code
listing as a block and the surrounding text.
What we have to do now, as a workaround, is define a triplet of styles, for the
first, second and middle paragraphs, which is just annoying.
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