Hi :) I was wrong about it being fixed in a newer branch. I saw Graham's response about it working fine in his and figured 2+2=6. I didn't realise that Frank was already using the newer branch. Apols and regards from Tom :)
On 2 August 2014 16:09, CVAlkan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Graham: > > Yes - I too always download from the website as Ubuntu's repository usually > contains older, supposedly more stable versions of software. In the case of > LibreOffice, I chose to use a more recent build (4.3 branch) as it has > fixes > for a couple bugs that directly affect my work). I use the 64 bit version, > though, so there may be some difference there. > > As for the hyphen, my belief (based on using publishing and word processing > software for more than thirty years) is that the hyphen itself should be > acquired from the particular font in use, and it should look and act as if > you had typed it manually, using the same exact spacing. > > If the text is "ragged right" i.e. unjustified, you should not see any > difference between a hyphen you typed yourself and an automatic > hyphenation. > If the text is right justified, the hyphen's spacing should be "stretched > out" along with all the other characters in the line to make it reach the > right margin, but ignoring/removing the character's own right-hand spacing > for the last character (in this case, the hyphen). And I agree with you > that > one would expect no additional spacing between the last "real" character > and > the hyphen. > > It's interesting to me that you have extraneous spacing BEFORE the hyphen > while, in my case, the hyphen overlays the final non-hyphen character > (which > now that I look more closely, seems like it has not had its right edge > spacing removed, giving the appearance that it is only overlapping the > right > half of the final character.) > > In my case, the actual printed output is fine, as is the output in any pdf > export I make from LibreOffice Writer, so the problem would seem to be > related only to the display. You seem to be suggesting that your additional > spacing is on the printed output. Is that the case? If so, does it match > the > Print Preview display? > > TomD made a comment that this behavior has been fixed in a "newer branch," > but I haven't figured out what that means. > > So I guess I'm just stuck with WYSIAWYG instead of WHYSIWYG for a while > (the > "A" is for "almost"). > > Have a great weekend... > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Hyphen-Printing-Problem-in-Writer-tp4116929p4117556.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
