Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-05-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) To me some of this sounds like it's going into "desktop publishing" rather than just word-processing. Writer is generally much more of a desktop publishing than Word. However something like Scribus or another proper desktop publishing program might allow a lot more finesses. I've never had

Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:02 30/04/2016 +1200, Zed Noname wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Sample: try putting this into an A4 page, 2cm margins, TNR 12pt, fully justified). You should get 4 lines, of which the third has 3 long words with large spacing. F ads dfg sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf F

Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread zed
Mike Scott wrote: > On 29/04/16 05:45, Brian Barker wrote: . > > Text can be distributed within lines in various ways: left aligned, > > centred, right aligned, or justified. The first three modes will > > maintain constant, standard spacing between words, but the last > > intentionally expan

justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Mike Scott
On 29/04/16 05:45, Brian Barker wrote: . Text can be distributed within lines in various ways: left aligned, centred, right aligned, or justified. The first three modes will maintain constant, standard spacing between words, but the last intentionally expands spaces between words in order to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-29 Thread anne-ology
interspersed below, From: Brian Barker Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words To: users@global.libreoffice.org At 13:55 28/04/2016 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: I'm trying to adjust spaces between chara

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction

2016-04-29 Thread charles meyer
Thank you Joe Conner, Kruno and Brian Barker for your helpful posts. Justify left it was. Thank you all for your kind help. Charles. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting gui

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:55 28/04/2016 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: I'm trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I very much hope you are not. Unless you are German and using letter spacing to indicate emphasis, you should not be tinkering with spacing between characters w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Kruno
28.04.2016 u 20:24, Joe Conner je napisao/la: Select the text, FORMAT -> PARAGRAPH -> ALIGNMENT Tab -> OPTIONS, then put the radio button bullet on left justify. Or he could hyphenate words. On the first word after awkward line hit Ctrl + - (ctrl and that hyphen character just right of the pe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Joe Conner
Select the text, FORMAT -> PARAGRAPH -> ALIGNMENT Tab -> OPTIONS, then put the radio button bullet on left justify. On 04/28/2016 10:55 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I’m trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I have the paragraph symbol turned on

[libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread charles meyer
Hi Folks, I’m trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I have the paragraph symbol turned on so I can see that paragraph icon at the end of every line of text. Some text words have larger spaces between the words than others. The larger spaces make the sent