overflow-behavior with text boxes: clip does not clip?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012, 18:20:04 schrieb C. Boemann:
> On Saturday 25 February 2012 13:34:07 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I expected "style:overflow-behavior" set to "clip" with no minimum size
> > set
> > to result in text which does not fit in a draw:text-box to be clipped,
> > i.e. not shown. But instead text is also rendered outside of the text box
> > (see attached screenshot).
> > 
> > Is that a bug or a feature?
> > 
> > From the spec:
> > > If the style:overflow-behavior attribute value is auto-create-new-frame
> > > and
> > 
> > the text box has a minimum width or height specified the text box will
> > grow
> > as long as there is space left on the page. If no space is left, a new
> > frame will be created on the next page, with the same position and
> > dimensions of the original frame.
> > 
> > > The defined values for the style:overflow-behavior attribute are:
> > > ●clip: text that does not fit into a text box is not displayed.
> > > ●auto-create-new-frame: a new frame will be created on the next page,
> > > with
> > 
> > the same position and dimensions of the original frame.
> > 
> > * See http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-
> > part1.html#property-style_overflow-behavior
> 
> I'm not sure it's a bug or something we do on purpose to be compatible with
> ms office
> 
> > If it is a bug, what I think it is, where would I have to look to fix it?
> > And proposals how to do that?
> 
> It's probably handled in the textshape and especially in the container model
> 
> But I'd really like Sebastian to reply to this thread

So do I :) Sebastian?

> > And how would you propose to mark in the editor display that there is more
> > text which is not shown? IIRC some programs had a symbol in the middle
> > handler rectangle in the bottem ( a + or \/ symbol, cmp. again the
> > attachment). As I find those hard to see, making the handle wider might be
> > also an option, somehow matching the state "more content here". Such
> > handler states could also be used for all other clipped objects, like
> > pixmaps, to show off there is actually more content, just not displayed.
> > 
> > And clicking that handler resulted in the textbox expanding to the bottom
> > as much as possible/needed. Might be a nice feature to add as another
> > step.

Cheers
Friedrich