Re: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-19 Thread Németh László
Hi, I have added the improved version of the macro to the Typography toolbar (second icon): http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/typography-toolbar It formats the actual justified paragraph or all justified paragraphs of the selected text or document (formatting a huge document is

Re: Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-08 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:56:02AM -0500, Terrence Enger ten...@iseries-guru.com wrote: Have we ever considered the possibility of adding TeX output as an option in Writer? I expect that people who need the beauty and control that are available with TeX are already using it. So, just

Re: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Tapp
Hi Németh, On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:54, Németh László wrote: Hi, It seems, LibreOffice uses a TeX-like penalty system for justification, but without modifiable options and pdfTeX-like microtypography features. There are other problems in this area, for example, the (sometimes very ugly)

Re: Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-08 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 09:45 +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 11:56:02AM -0500, Terrence Enger ten...@iseries-guru.com wrote: Have we ever considered the possibility of adding TeX output as an option in Writer? I expect that people who need the beauty and control that

Re: Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Chris, On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Kohei Yoshida kohei.yosh...@gmail.com wrote: I manage a wiki which is being used to produce the text for a book that is due to be published shortly. We can currently produce an ODT document that is about 95% print-ready, but there are a few

Re: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-07 Thread Miklos Vajna
Hi Chris, On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:15:03AM +, Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com wrote: As far as I can tell, LO only uses the inter-word spaces for justification and it only makes these larger. This generally works fairly well in many cases, but it does sometimes lead to output with

Re: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Tapp
Hi Miklos, On 7 Mar 2013, at 08:42, Miklos Vajna wrote: On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:07:27AM -0500, Kohei Yoshida kohei.yosh...@gmail.com wrote: I manage a wiki which is being used to produce the text for a book that is due to be published shortly. We can currently produce an ODT document

Re: Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-07 Thread Németh László
Hi, It seems, LibreOffice uses a TeX-like penalty system for justification, but without modifiable options and pdfTeX-like microtypography features. There are other problems in this area, for example, the (sometimes very ugly) missing kerning before the automatic hyphen character and the missing

Re: Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-07 Thread Terrence Enger
On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 16:54 +0100, Németh László wrote: Hi, It seems, LibreOffice uses a TeX-like penalty system for justification, but without modifiable options and pdfTeX-like microtypography features. Have we ever considered the possibility of adding TeX output as an option in Writer?

Fwd: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
-- From: Chris Tapp opensou...@keylevel.com Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:17 PM Subject: LibreOffice text justification To: kohei.yosh...@gmail.com Dear Kohei-san, I manage a wiki which is being used to produce the text for a book that is due to be published shortly. We can currently produce

Re: LibreOffice text justification

2013-03-06 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Kohei Yoshida kohei.yosh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, With Chris' permission, I'm forwarding his question to the developer's list. He would like some code pointers to Writer core where it handle line-to-line inter-word spacing. Anyway, I've included the full