https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155494
--- Comment #19 from William Friedman <[email protected]> --- Thank you everyone for the engagement around this issue. I agree with V. Stuart Foote's comment #18: "we really should be breaking lines at paragraph/object margins--wrap like other sane word processors and text editors." As for what should be done with the "extra" spaces: 1) I tend to oppose imposing unnecessary limitations on users, even if I can't imagine any use case for manually inserted spaces at the end/beginning of lines. My preference would be to treat spaces at the end of a line like any other character, wrapping them and displaying them on the next line. 2) If this is a problem, then second best would be to ignore the attempt to insert spaces at the end/beginning of lines, and to truncate such spaces automatically when importing Word documents (or to offer a compatibility option to delete or retain them, but *not* display them, as was the behavior prior to LO 7.5). 3) Alternatively, in the interest of maximizing user flexibility/customization, a checkbox could be added somewhere under Tools | Options | LibreOffice Writer: "Allow trailing/leading spaces" -- when checked, spaces would be treated as regular characters, wrapped at the end of lines, and displayed normally (as I suggested in 1 above); when unchecked, no trailing/leading spaces would be permitted, and pressing space at the end or beginning of a line would have no effect (as I suggested in 2 above). 4) Regarding the issues caused by such spaces with centered/justified alignments, I would advocate for a checkbox somewhere under Tools | Options | LibreOffice Writer: "Truncate trailing spaces in center/justified alignments." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
