https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145556
--- Comment #4 from Regina Henschel <rb.hensc...@t-online.de> --- For custom-shapes there is this situation: The distances in the "Text attributes" dialog define a padding-area in the sense of https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.html#box-padding-area. If the padding is so large, that there is zero width or height of the content area, then it might be valid to say, that then no content can be there. But I have not found a rule, what to do. To reduce confusion of users a solution could be, to restrict the distance values in the dialog so, that this situation does not occur. If you define your own custom-shape, you can workaround the problem by using a suitable 'draw:text-areas' attribute. For other shapes than custom-shapes, e.g. lines, no such explicit text area exists. It might be possible to use a text area which reaches in the direction opposite to the anchor to the document boundary. Astonishingly there is no such problem, when placing text above or below the line. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.