https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144608
--- Comment #8 from [email protected] --- > The paragraph alignment is totally independent from "text anchor", as you > would expect. > When you set the anchor to left, you still get right-aligned paragraph > right-aligned, > and left-aligned ones left-aligned. > What changes is the width of the "page". And that's normal, because the "full > width" gets > unchecked (it's only available for middle alignment), and that checkbox means > "use the > control's width as the width for layouting the text". This clarifies a bit. But I still have a few items that do not look completely consistent to me: The usage of "full width" remains strange to me, possibly due to lacking documentation. - I have always assumed that the role of the anchor was to determine how the text box should automatically alter its size when there is a need to do so (namely what should remain fixed when the size is automatically altered). Is this correct? - I have always expected paragraphs to be laid out in the text box as they are in the regular page considering the size of the text box and aligning the individual paragraphs left, center, right or justified as set in the paragraph properties. I now understand that when you do not have the "full width" tick set the individual paragraphs are laidd out using their own natural width as the "page" size. Why is this needed? Is there a case where you need the full width unselected? That is something that you would not be able to do with the mere paragraph alignment controls? - Why do you say you need the full width switch off for the left and right anchoring? This makes it impossible to achieve something like what I have just described in an example. You have a text box with some predefined width and you put them close to the right border of the page. In this box you want left alignment. But you may also want right anchoring, so that if one puts in the box more text that it can fit, rather than putting the text off the page, the box can expand to the left. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
