LibreOffice Format | Paragraph | Proportional defaults to 6%

[Coby Ingram]

When I open a new document in Libreoffice, and try to format line spacing for a paragraph, and when I choose "Proportional," the default value to begin with is 6%. This has been the case for many years, through many fresh installs of Ubuntu and LO.

It is not possible that this would be a setting on my machine alone, because it persists even on a fresh install. I do not think it is possible that I may be picking the setting up from any documents I have previously edited, because the setting persists even when I try to do a purge, reinstall, and factory reset of the app. I may be missing something, but what?

I have filed this bug with the Document Foundation. They have tested it and say it is not their bug. The default value in the LO 7.5 download from their website is 100% on their machines.

I have tried purging LO, installing the packages from their website, and factory-resetting my user profile (necessary because even when I did an apt-get --purge, my recent documents were still showing). The 6% figure is still showing. And so it is neither in the LO install itself, nor in the Ubuntu config files affected by apt purge.

The bug report will show that I do not have LO installed. That is because I left the LO 7.5 packages installed awaiting further instructions from LO.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-20.20-generic 6.2.6
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 23 21:03:36 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-03-13 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" - Alpha amd64 (20221209)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)