On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > wrote:
> I suspect the Roman alphabet, conventional-font space-/indent-sizing is > inapplicable for some Asian languages. (I hope the Asian setting is > specifically for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) or we could be having > problems with some very complex language scripts as well. > > Rory, I don't believe "automatic" is on by default, so someone must be > defining styles this way, you think? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 14:20 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: help needed on ODF standard for "auto" indent for paragraphs > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:57:59 -0700 > Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is in regard to issue > > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126476 > > > > I can't easily locate what the ODF 1.2 standard is on calculation for a > > first line auto indent for a paragraph. Well I found this -- > > http://officeopenxml.com/WPindentation.php > > > > but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. :/ > > > > In any case, if the standard is consistent regardless of font, it seems > > our calcs may be incorrect for some Asian fonts (maybe encoding factors > > are not correctly taken into account) and that is the reason the patch > > was submitted for this issue. It would be nice if this calculation did > > happen correctly so users would not have to manually adjust the indent > > for paragraph first line. > > > > Kay, > > Merely for information, the printing standard I grew up with is that the > usual indent for a paragraph in body type is one em, that is on 12 pt type, > 12 pts, 18 pt type, 18 pts etc. I believe this is the convention followed > in OO's Paragraph style definition on the Indents and Spacing tab, when > "Automatic" is checked for first line indentation. > > If you need references for the one em indent I can provide them. > > Rory > > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > Thanks to both of you. The situation, as you can see from the issue, is we've had a patch submitted to deal specifically for CJK. But I wonder how applicable this is for other character sets. This is why I'm looking for a calc standard on this. If we could isolate that, we could track down the calculations we have now and try to determine what the problem is. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” --Lao Tzu
