LO 7.2 Adds 2 Lines Before After Indented Material, How to Undo?

[Mournival]

Prior to 7.2, LO Writer added one line each before and after several lines of text were indented from prior and succeeding material. Now, two lines are added before and after and that’s too much. I’ve reviewed the commands within LO, checked all of the Options, and tried to find relevant questions here without locating an answer to this question.

So, again, the question is: How can I limit spaces added before and after indented material to one line each?

This does NOT appear to be a paragraph issue, since two lines are NOT added before and after paragraphs, ONLY before and after indented material.

As per the comment of ajlittoz, I can add that I always use “View Formatting Marks,” and saw nothing in VFM that helped me find how I could change the situation.

I indent by opening the paragraph topic and adding a certain amount “Before text.”

I have added screenshot displaying the preceding and following text and the indented material, with the excessive double line spacing preceding and following the indented material.

[ajlittoz]

Please edit your question (don’t start a discussion at this stage) to give more technical details.

Have you enabled View>Formatting Marks? If no, do it. This displays clues on screen about your formatting. Real empty lines are indicated by a single pilcrow sign ¶ and new lines by↲. Thus you can discriminate added “material” from spacing forced by paragraph styles.

Also how do you indent? With a tab (then how are tab styops defined?)? With a toolbar button or its eventual keyboard shortcut? Through a setting in paragraph styles?

If possible attach a short example exhibiting the issue.

[Hrbrgr]

How do I create a hanging indent in my document?

[Mournival]

Thank you, @Hrbrgr. Was this something new? I’ve been using LO for years and included lots of quotations without this problem.

[Hrbrgr]

Was this something new?

No, not really. The problem lies in the use of different options.
One way is to do all the formatting similar to using a typewriter. It’s called direct formatting.
The other way is to work as exclusively as possible with style sheets. They mean that you have to invest a little more thought in the beginning. When assigning paragraph styles to a paragraph, for example, all you have to do is place the cursor in the paragraph and double-click on the style. You can repeat this on many paragraphs and it will be quite easy.
My Tip:
Get into the habit of working with style sheets. Create your own style sheets in a document and then save it as a document template.
Then you have something, almost for eternity.

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[ajlittoz]

Thanks for the screenshot, but it doesn’t bring enough information, notably the involved paragraph styles. Please attach a sample file. The page you show in the screenshot will do.

I find very strange that your paragraphs are one-line long (excluding the poetry piece). Are you using LO as an antiquated mechanical typewriter or have you imported/pasted this text from some PDF original?

From appearance, I think your trouble originates in the excessive use of direct formatting.