| Summary: | "Repeat heading" setting in table overlaps repeated header text if there's merged/split cells | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Jim Nissen <jimson1969> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | buzea.bogdan, kuraga333, stephane.guillou, vmiklos |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | Inherited From OOo | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158347 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106107 |
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 103100 | ||
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What it looks like on Mac
What the same page looks like on Widows Libreoffice Santized doc with issue on pg 21 LO 7.1.5.2 minimal reproducer ODT |
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Created attachment 174184 [details]
What the same page looks like on Widows Libreoffice
I just downgraded to version 7.0.6.2, and it doesn't malform the same page. Can you please attach a sanitized sample document to reproduce and hopefully fix this problem. And another question: you reported 7.1.3.2 as first broken version for this regression. How are 7.1.5 and 7.2.0RC2 behaving from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/? I had previously tried upgrading to 7.1.5, and had same issue. I just upgraded to 7.2.0RC2, and same issue. I am attaching a sanitized document that shows the problem. Page 21 shows the table with headers in middle of the block of table, and text that overlaps columns. Created attachment 174325 [details]
Santized doc with issue on pg 21
Created attachment 174326 [details]
LO 7.1.5.2
Confirmed on 7.1.5.2, screenshot attached -> NEW Were are we at with this bug fix? I just hit it again, and even on the previous version (7.0.6.2), that used to work around it. (In reply to steve from comment #7) > Created attachment 174326 [details] > LO 7.1.5.2 I see the same on macOS, and on Linux: Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 6084962f93efc005b6827edceae12d3170f17ccd CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded But also in LO 7.0.0.3 and in OOo 3.3, so I don't see the regression Jim see. It has to do with the "Repeat header" setting, which is set to repeat one single row, but you'll see that it actually consists of two rows in page 20, with some cells merged. If repeat heading is set to 2 rows, the overlap is gone. That was also mentioned in bug 158347. Created attachment 194460 [details]
minimal reproducer ODT
See this minimal example: If a cell (B1) in the repeated header row was split horizontally, the text of the A1 cell ends up being overlapped in the cell below in the next page (and in this case, vertically centred over it.
Miklos, please see the minimal reproducer in comment 11. Can you think of a more elegant way to deal with this? Sure, the user should probably change the setting to repeating 2 rows instead of 1 at this stage, but I still think this overlap/overflow into the next cell (and inheriting of alignment properties) looks bad and needs fixing. For example, by not repeating the cell A1 text at all. Yes, probably once it's not reasonable to provide what the user wants, we should just stop taking the "repeat heading" request from the user. I think we already do this when the header itself is larger than the page, for example. This would likely solve the overflow part as well. |
Created attachment 174183 [details] What it looks like on Mac We use Libreoffice for many of our installation documentation, and it all contains many multipage tables, in a "check list" format. Lately, especially on Mac, the table headers and text are malformed, as shown in the "image003.png" attachment. The image001.png attachment is the same page, from a Windows user.