Bug 159162 - changing bullet position reverts to inches
Summary: changing bullet position reverts to inches
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
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24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Reported: 2024-01-13 07:37 UTC by Elmar
Modified: 2024-01-25 16:30 UTC (History)
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Description Elmar 2024-01-13 07:37:54 UTC
Description:
the default positions for bullets and numbered lists is inches. This wastes a lot of page space, and most of the world is metric.
I take the time in the toolbar to correct it to what I want for the 10 levels.
LO then changes it for the current and immediately following par's.
when I then add a new list late, the setting have reverted to inches.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.change style to bulleted list
2.position is based on inches
3.change the toolbar related settings

Actual Results:
is as set for current paragraphs
when revert to normal text then add a new bulleted list, inches are back

Expected Results:
should do as chnaged


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-GB
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes

Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e83c7ec2f4d801365235bf56d7cc8cf31ef4a00e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Elmar 2024-01-13 08:23:27 UTC
Note that the default par (or body text) would include "no list", but if i want to add a list on the fly and then choose the toolbar icon to do so, it should be based on the values that I have set in the toolbar icon (wherever that is recorded.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2024-01-25 16:30:50 UTC
I assume you mean what we see in Format - Bullets and numbering - Position.

For me they are centimeters.

If I go to Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - General - Settings: Measurement unit and change it to Inch, the units in bullet position fields are in inches.

Can you confirm what you have as the measurement unit in options?

In my testing, I just added a bulleted list and went to format it.

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Arch Linux 64-bit, X11
Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 1b83ebf42c535528b73baac2407b347f19070d07
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.7; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
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