https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43244

--- Comment #4 from [email protected] 2011-12-01 03:19:59 PST ---
This problem is of a more complex nature than I initially thought. And there
are a few possible solutions to it.

1. At first I expected the feature with spaces to behave in the same manner as
in e.g. Notepad++. If you toggle on option VIEW/WRAP, spaces behave like any
other characters (letters, dots, slashes etc.) i.e. they are automatically
transferred to the second line if they exceed the char limit in the one they
start in.

2. If in Notepad++ the WRAP option is off, you can write (and continue to see)
spaces indefinitely, as the line becomes longer and longer ad infinitum. This
corresponds to the behavior in the normal layout in MS Word (VIEW/NORMAL
LAYOUT).

3. However, the feature introduced by Bartosz Kosiorek in LibO 3.5 is a rough
equivalent of MS Word print layout (VIEW/PRINT LAYOUT), with slight
differences. The differences consist in the fact that in MS Word (my version:
2003) print layout you can see that spaces go beyond the page or that they do
not. Like in LibO, they are not wrapped, and in print they are not wrapped
either.

So, if you can follow my explanation, it turns out that it is not necessarily a
bug, and there are several possible ends to the problem, as follows:

1. Improve visibility of spaces exceeding page margins to make the difference
between exceeding/non-exceeding spaces more apparent (as it is done in MS
Word).
2. Introduce WRAP mode as it is done in Notepad++
3. Decide which approach is better for printing (MS Word/Notepad++).
4. Perhaps introduce other layouts in LibreOffice (there is no NORMAL LAYOUT)
(???). 

I hope all is clear now. I'll try to attach screenshots of MS Word and
Notepad++ to illustrate my point.

Cf "nonptinting ..."  - yes, it may be misleading, but I only the developer's
denotation...

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