https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88603
Bug ID: 88603
Summary: FORMATTING: 'Keep with next paragraph' should have
priority over the next paragraph's 'Do not split
paragraph' if that next paragraph won't fit on one
page anyway.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.3.5.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Created attachment 112506
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=112506&action=edit
Simple repro showcasing the splitting of two paragraphs that ought to be kept
together.
Problem description:
First, my understanding of how things work in LibreOffice... please correct me
if I'm wrong. :)
With the 'Do not split paragraph' option set, LibreOffice moves a paragraph
immediately to a new page once it figures out that this paragraph won't fit on
the current page. If the previous paragraph has the 'Keep with next paragraph'
option set, LibreOffice will try to keep those two paragraphs together, i.e. if
they both fit on the current page, they remain there, otherwise if they both
fit on a new, empty page, they will be moved to the next page. However if both
paragraphs combined will span more than one page, LibreOffice will separate
them, prioritizing the 2nd paragraph's 'Do not split' over the 1st paragraph's
'Keep with next' setting. Once the 2nd paragraph would span more than one page
by itself however, the 'Keep with next' setting should have a higher priority
again as nothing is really gained from moving only the 2nd paragraph to the
next page (as it won't completely fit there anyway).
Furthermore it might be arguable if, should paragraph 2 fit exactly on one page
by itself but would span more than one page if kept together with paragraph 1,
the 'Keep with next' option should always have a higher priority as the 1st
paragraph might e.g. serve as some kind of header to the bulk of content in the
2nd paragraph and as such should always visually remain with that content.
As far as I know LibreOffice behaves the way as Microsoft Word does, and I know
I could always disable the 2nd paragraph's 'Do not split' option manually in
this case but I am hitting this 'issue' when importing a huge auto-generated
.rtf file with dozens to hundreds of these cases... so I thought I'd raise the
issue here at least to see if I am alone in this or not. :)
Steps to reproduce:
Load the attached .odt file.
Current behavior:
'Paragraph 1' (which has the 'Keep with next' option set) ends up all alone on
page 1.
'Paragraph 2' (which has the 'Do not split' option set) ends up on page 2.
Expected behavior:
'Paragraph 2' should also end up on page 1, immediately following 'Paragraph 1'
(due to the 1st paragraph's
'Keep with next' option being set and Paragraph 2 not fitting on page 2 in its
entirety in the first place).
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