On 8 Jan 2008 at 12:49, Brian Barker wrote: > At 06:08 08/01/2008 -0800, Rogier van Vlissingen wrote: > >I'm running into a persistent formatting problem. It is a quote > >within brackets, which seems to prevent the sentence from wrapping > >around in a normal way. > > > >example: > >... to "the awareness of love's presence" (ACIM:Introduction), ... > > > >in this case it is the (ACIM:Introduction), which ends up pulling > >the -- presence" -- to the next line, even though there is plenty of > >space for the word on the previous line.
Hamm, apart from bugs, it looks as though the line-break algorithm is poor anyway. It's been known for a long time you need to use lookahead to sort out difficult cases, and OOo clearly doesn't. For example, the paragraph: Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd Asd verylonganduglywordtocauselinebreakhassle verylonganduglywordtocauselinebreakhassle verylonganduglywordtocauselinebreakhassle when justified on an A4 page (2cm margins) in 12pt TimesNR (2.3.1/XP) puts all the 'asd' strings on one line, and the next two long words alone on the next with a huge space between. It looks ugly. A better system would shift two (in this case) of the short words down a line - the first line would then not be optimum, the second line would look much better. It can be treated as a dynamic programming problem. Now that's 20-year-old technology or thereabouts..... I'd sort-of hoped OOo would do better than it does. I know this is a pathological example - but similar problems do occasionally pop up in normal text. :-( -- http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
