https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156374
Bug ID: 156374
Summary: Make Hanging Indent command create a hanging indent,
when used on a paragraph without one
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: needsUXEval
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
There is a Hanging Indent function in Writer [1] (.uno:HangingIndent),
implemented in commit c1351a7b1363dac4349f37ac8876fdf950e62b97, that allows to
toggle the first line indent into hanging indent and back, when a paragraph
already has an indent for its first line, positive or negative.
But this function does nothing, if the paragraph has no indent at all. Compare
with a function in MS Word, where Ctrl+T creates a hanging indent in a
paragraph without one. (In Word, it would increase the indent each time; but
let us not focus on the following behavior - only on the first use on a clean
unindented paragraph.)
Steps:
0. Assign "Hanging Indent" function in Writer to a key, say, Ctrl+T.
1. In a new Writer document, create a paragraph with all indents set to 0.
2. Press Ctrl+T
=> nothing happens (this is suggested to be changed in this issue)
3. Set the paragraph's first line indent to 10 mm
4. Press Ctrl+T
=> The indentation is converted to hanging indentation (OK)
The proposal is to add some pre-defined indentation in this case; it might be
e.g. equal to the default tab stop. So in step 2, the expected result would be
creation of a hanging indent of, say, 1.25 cm, or whatever default tab stop is,
or whatever value would be decided (there are some style guides out there,
which might be taken into account with regards of this size).
[1] https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/swriter/guide/indenting.html
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