https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160548
Bug ID: 160548
Summary: Writer : by default, do not gray out non-breaking
spaces (at least in french)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.6.5.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
This is a default options change suggestion. So, easy to develop, hard to
decide.
In french, we use a lot of "non-breaking" spaces. Before this characters : ";",
":", "!" "?", "«", "»". By default, LibreOffice is shipped with this characters
grayed out, that leads to a display hard to read.
I have asked to people around me : all of them wanted to disable this grayed
out option and were revieled when I changed their parameter. ("Uf, thank you !!
It was possible ??).
My daughter changed to MS Word just because of that (she is 18 years old, and
did not even think it was possible to change that).
MS Word does not gray out those non-breaking spaces, at least in french (I do
not know in english), which has to be considered : why Microsoft has chosen not
to gray out ? I think there are right in that choice. I do think that this very
little default parameter has a big impact in France : some people just leave
LibreOffice for this mere but very annoying reason...
Of course there is an easy workaround. You can change this setting in the
options (Tools/Options/Formatting Aids/Non-breaking spaces). That is what I
have done (after being annoyed during years). But most people are not involved
as I am in Open source sofwares, and do not even think that it could have a
parameter for that. And in the end, some of them just leave LibreOffice, like
my daughter.
You can find a thread with an example here (english) :
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/remove-gray-color-of-non-breaking-spaces-in-writer/22106
and there (french) :
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/writer-affichage-par-defaut-des-caracteres-insecables-mauvaise-idee-on-perd-des-utilisateurs/104317
Bona
Actual Results:
Non-breaking characters are grayed out (by default).
"Tools/Options/Formatting Aids/Non-breaking spaces" is ticked.
Expected Results:
N/A
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
With a fresh new LibreOffice installation, do not gray out non-breaking
characters by default in Writer. So untick "Tools/Options/Formatting
Aids/Non-breaking spaces"
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