Bug 97457 - Paragraph indentation on the second line
Summary: Paragraph indentation on the second line
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Reported: 2016-01-30 21:39 UTC by Avi
Modified: 2021-07-01 14:18 UTC (History)
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Description Avi 2016-01-30 21:39:03 UTC
Need the ability to have indentation only on the 2nd line of a paragraph. Indention will be the size of the first word of the paragraph. Example:

This paragraph starts here
     the second line is here
the third line is here
the forth line is here
...
the last line is here

This is needed for all Hebrew religious texts (biblical, Talmudic etc.).
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2016-01-31 02:18:10 UTC
Reasonable enhancement. But rather than style might be accomplished with a macro--inserting spaces or tab for offset on the second, and only the second line of paragraph.
Comment 2 Avi 2016-02-01 18:34:39 UTC
Unfortunately it can't be accomplished by spaces or tabs, since with a proportional font the indentation size depends on the size of the first word in the paragraph.

The only way (I know) to do it now is by adding a white word in the beginning of the second line - the same word as the first in the paragraph. Not a clean workaround, and it needs to be done only after all the text is done :(
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2020-11-25 18:06:41 UTC
UX team: can you re-evaluate this old one? Should we add it and how?
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2020-12-01 18:32:40 UTC
Don't see this as valid enhancement. Neither to be backed by the format. IMO WF
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2021-06-30 07:34:40 UTC
No further input, resolving WF. "Second-line-indentation" is not covered by any document format. As workaround I would add a softbreak (shift+enter) and a tab at the first character.
Comment 6 Mike Kaganski 2021-06-30 07:48:55 UTC
As a workaround, you may try to use drop caps. I was able to do something close to what you describe: using a drop caps character style having position=superscript, raised by 31%, relative font size 34%; and the paragraph style with drop caps enabled to 2 lines, whole word, and defined space to text.
Comment 7 Avi 2021-07-01 14:18:03 UTC
Thank you. I will try to use this option.
It should also possible to write a macro for this, that will be based on a tab on the second line, with the size of the first work on the paragraph (there are such macros for MS Word).