https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159923
Bug ID: 159923
Summary: Add max shrink and space width customization options
to upcoming smart justification feature
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Recently a 'smart justification' feature #119908 was introduced to LibreOffice
and is apparently planned to be the default justification algorithm of the next
major versions of LibreOffice. While I very much welcome any improvements to
justification, I also started to think that could there be some easy way to
offer users something that is more than just copycatting what M$ Word is doing.
Now that the ‘smart justification’ makes possible to shrink word spacing up to
20%, how difficult would it be to make default space width and maximum
shrinkage user adjustable (both on relative scale)? This would allow for the
users to fine tune the justification to their liking. My idea here is that if
the you increase the default space width and max shrinkage, you could have some
control over space width variability between lines. This is in my opinion the
most annoying issue in full text justification. The benefit of this could vary
between languages. The Finnish language has much longer word length on average
than English and as such might benefit more from custom settings. Of course the
problem with this suggestion is that it not compatible with Word, but users
could be warned when enabling this feature and when exporting these documents
to Word.
I hope this idea will considered while the ‘smart justification’ feature is
being set as the default justification algorithm.
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