Additions to negative paragraph margins

[Michael Brauer <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi all,

the ODF schema already supports negative horizontal paragraph margins. 
Using a negative margin means that the paragraph's text actually starts 
and/or ends within the page margins.

Unfortunately, the style:position of the <style:tab-stop> element does 
not support negative values at the moment (section 15.5.11.1). The 
result is that no tab-stops can be defined at positions that are within 
the page margin, although text is displayed there. To remove this 
limitation, I would like to propose to allow negative values for this 
attribute.

I further would like to propose that the style:space-before attribute 
that specifies the margin for lists (section 15.12.2) may get negative 
values as well, to be in alignment with the the value range of paragraph 
margins.

Best regards

Michael


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