https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48461
--- Comment #4 from Bob Harvey <[email protected]> --- OK, fair enough. 1. Bleeding (or leading) tabs fill in between TOC text on the left and the page numbers on the right. In LO this is done with a character specified as a fill character, but those are left justified the same way as the text. That means that, with a proportional font for the text, they don't line up down the page: the dots on one row might fall in between the dots on the row above, creating an unpleasant mash. My proposal would have: - A minimum white space between the text and the bleed - A minimum white space between the bleed and the page number - the fill characters would be right-justified and right-aligned so that they form attractive vertical columns on the page. The present system of tabs can be used to set the final white space between the right hand end of the bleed and the page number, and a number of similar tabs (according to how variable the text lengths are), the point where the bleed starts on the left. 2. The text and the index number can be made to stand out better if the fill characters are greyed relative to the text and the index number. It will be easier to follow the bleed across the page if the level of greying were to be different for successive lines. This is similar to the green and white stripes on old-fashioned fanfold "music" printouts. For example, you might provide the option to have four levels of greying (or transparency) for the bleed fill characters and apply them sequentially, allowing the user to select schemes like: 80% 60% 40% 20% or alternatively 75% 25% 75% 25% or even 90% 0% 90% 0% to produce alternate rulings and blanks. Some finessing might be applied according to heading levels, if possible: the sequence of 4 might want to be reset for new chapters or new heading levels 1, or the greying/transparency might be set by heading level instead of (or as well as?) the sequential idea. In my mind the actual level of greying would be the multiplicative product of the sequential and the heading level settings, such that setting either one to all 100% would select the other technique instead, or they could be mixed by someone creative. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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