Hi, On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 00:07 -0700, never punctual wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions so far. I guess hyphenation could be useful in > some cases, but it seems to be more of a luxury for me to have that feature > at the moment because I'm still not sure how the Tools --> Language --> > Hyphenation option works. Sorry, I should have been clearer. When I tested it, it worked on the entire document without having to select any text. It appears to work much like spell checking typically does. > However, I did look into the Word Wrap option. All the options under Format > --> Wrap are greyed out, and I think this is why: > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32373&start=0 > > I think that Word Wrap option refers to wrapping around pictures, and not > what I want to do (leave the first part of the long word on the line it > started on). I think this is why it's greyed out by default; I would have to > paste a picture and select it or something in order to set those Word Wrap > options. > > Ron, I think your workaround is very clever, and it worked perfectly with > URLs at least. After inserting a space to split the URL, I basically created > 2 separate URLs that I could fix by editing the hyperlink. In fact, I can > generalize this option to long words that aren't URLs; it would actually be > easier in those cases because I would just have to choose a place to split > the word and not have to worry about fixing the hyperlinks to make them > clickable. > > But is there a less time consuming and more standardized option? The short > term problem with this workaround is that I have to guess at where the word > should be split. It would be easier of Libreoffice Writer gave the option of > allowing the long word to continue until no more characters fit in the > original line instead of just bumping the whole word down to the next line, > because then I won't have to figure out the exact point at which no more > characters would fit. Splitting it with a space means the user is left to do > all the work that could be automated by Libreoffice. > > The lack of this feature bothers me so much that I'm tempted to learn C++ > just to add it :( > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
