Probably shows a bit how little that software is used with Tibetan text if this bug was able to stay open for almost 10 years for what ultimately was a 5 line fix.

The fix looks like a 5 line fix because it is a last step in a very long process of optimizing LibreOffice text layout that started years ago. This 5 line fix could not have been possible 10 years ago simply because the code it is fixing didn't exist back then.

> Probably shows a bit how little that software is used with Tibetan text

... by the LibreOffice devs in Indo-European-speaking countries.

Apparently by anyone if the bug description is accurate. Seemingly one cannot open sufficiently long documents let alone write into them.

Perhaps: from the article:

So long as LibreOffice could not handle long paragraphs there was essentially no free tool to publish Tibetan.