https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170044
Bug ID: 170044
Summary: FEATURE REQUEST: Drop Caps: option to skip over
leading punctuation
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.2.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Example. Take the following two "lorem ipsum" paragraphs and assume they are
long enough for line-wrapping; apply "Drop Caps" paragraph styling:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...," she said.
In both cases the first glyph is DropCapped.
The first looks good; the "dropping" applies to the capital-L. It is what the
user expects.
The second looks poor (or worse); the dropping is applied to the opening
quotation mark. It is unlikely (although not impossible) that the user had
wanted this; they would generally (although there may be exceptions) want the
capital-L to be dropped.
I propose adding a tick-box option to the "Drop Caps" part of "Paragraph style"
called something like "Skip leading punctuation". If selected, the DropCap
operation would skip over leading punctuation characters (the first quotation
mark in my example-pair) and take effect at the first real non-punctuation
(typically alphanumeric). So both paragraphs would have the "L" drop-capped;
the second would retain its opening quotation mark in non-dropped form.
Naturally, we would need tighter definitions of "punctuation" here. And I can
see that there might be internationalisation and character classification
aspects. But initially at least can we focus on the high-level desirability of
such an option.
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
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