Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72378
WW8: OOo does not support Drop Caps "in margin"
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Steps: Download the swedish testdocument to the testcase 109188 http://www.sunvirtuallab.com/sample_docs/109188/generic_sv.doc Open the document in MS Word and OpenOffice Writer You will notice two errors 1) in the header the time shows up as 1:35 a12/p12 in OpenOffice (I think it is the time-format TIME \@ "h:mm am/pm" that makes problems) 2) On page 1 (the paragraph starting line 12) there is an uncial "ö". In the word-document the uncial is in the margin, in OpenOffice it is in the paragraph. This is testet on OOE680m6 build 1 on WinXP (danish and english OOo) and on Linux (danish OOo). Tested with some earlier versions also - same prob.
Created attachment 41222 [details] Testdocument containing the formats that causes the problems
The problem regarding the date field is already tracked as issue 48822. The Drop Cap "Ö" looks quite the same as in MS Word... what do you mean by "...is in the margin"? MS word handles Drop Caps a little differently than OO Writer. In Word they are inside frames, while OO does not need such a frame.
Created attachment 41240 [details] Image that shows the drop cap error
hi, sry I didnt find the AM/PM issue - I searched for ½ hour (yes I really tried). and yet another apologize, I remembered wrong about the dropcaps - it is on page 2 in the top - se the image.
See attached document, there's a Drop Cap formatted "in margin" on page two. This means (for people who don't have MS Word) that the Drop Cap is located in the left page border space, not touching the rest of the paragraph.
Hello thomasroswall, *, I stumbled upon this issue during my TCM test and - although it is targeted to OOoLater - found out, that your mentioned page 2 looks much better with the Germanophone version of OOO310m18. Tested this under Debian SID AMD64. Would you be so kind to test this issue again? TIA Thomas.