On 1/24/08, Lindsay Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a new user of OpenOffice and am finding all sorts of little (and not so > little) things that annoy/mystify me. I'll start off with a very little > question. > > In Writer, if I turn on Nonprinting Characters, all the spaces appear as > raised dots. All, that is, except the space at the end of the line. Why is > that space not visible? > > Lindsay Graham > Canberra, Australia
Hello, I actually never noticed that until 3 minutes ago :-) The spaces are indeed there (I tried to add 10 or so) and they only show if move the last word of a line to a new line. Spaces added at the beginning of a new line (not a new paragraph) are instead *totally* ignored. I guess this is actually done by choice (Wordperfect was also exhibiting this behaviour if I remember correctly) rather than being a bug. Probably the reason is that a line feed is equivalent to a space (?) Thinking about it, there is really no reason why you should insert a white character at the end of the line. On the other hand, I also tried MS Word and the space characters are shown even beyond the margin and beyond the page border. Unlike OOo MS Office allows also to add spaces at the beginning of a new line (OOo ignores them). I don't know which one is the best policy. Cheers, Michele --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
