Mike Scott <[email protected]> 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 expands spaces between words in order to fill all lines > > with text between the margins. If you don't want your text justified, > > don't use that mode. The mode is specified on the Alignment tabs of > > the Paragraph and Paragraph Style dialogues. > > > > Can I interject a long-standing issue here, in which LO is by no means > the sole offender? > > It seems that full justification is always done linewise with no > look-ahead. What's done seems something "gather words on a line until > the next one won't fit; add spaces to this line to justify". [snip]
> 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 ads > dfg sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf F ads dfg > sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg XXX gsd fgsdf > ddddddddddddddddddddddd sssssssssssssssssssssss > aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa dfg sdfg sdf > gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf Using LM17.3 Mate. LO v5.0.3.2 Very strange here. Copy and pasted sample and set margin, text type and text size as suggested and then did copy + paste. Text appeared as above. In turn tried Align left (did as expected), Align right (did as expected) Align centre (did as expected) Justify (text remained as pasted). zed -- zed A social life ? .... What board can I download That from? -- 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
