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efd476cbc7 #5197: the ruler shows the spaces between text columns (#5261)
In a section of several text columns the horizontal ruler was one white
strip from margin to margin. The space between each two columns is now
shaded like the margins, so the ruler shows where each column ends and
the next starts.

The edges of a space can be dragged, through layout.columns, one undo
step per drag, to change the spacing. Equal columns stay equal, so every
space changes with it, as in Word for Mac. Between unequal columns only
the column at that edge and the space change. As in Word for Mac, the
middle of a space has no grip of its own. Columns stay at least a
quarter inch wide and spaces 0-300 pt, as the Columns dialog allows,
snapped to 1/16 inch. Right-to-left sections are read from the right
edge.

Outside the main text, outside Print Layout and in a table the ruler is
unchanged. A selection across sections shows no spaces, since a drag
would set the columns of each section it touches; nor does a page the
caret isn't on. Columns from a file that the command wouldn't take back
(over 12, a column under a quarter inch, a space over 300 pt, wider than
the text) are shaded but not dragged. A tab stop's marker keeps its own
drag where it sits on an edge. The indent markers still follow the page
rather than the caret's column; that is #2196 (PR #2215).

Fixes #5197.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-authored-by: Martin Ball <martin.ball@ucscaregroup.co.uk>
2026-11-08 04:51:18 +01:00
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