Thanks for the prompt reply, Michele. I know which I think is the best
policy. I don't see the relevance of the line feed, and I certainly can't
see any reason for treating spaces at the end of the line differently from
other spaces. If I do a Find and Replace, it finds the spaces at the end of
the line, confirming that this function sees only one type of space. So,
why does the Nonprinting Characters function treat them differently?
Lindsay Graham
PS Michele, you obviously saw my post, but I have not yet seen it appear.
Is there any reason why my own posts would not come back to me as a member
of the list?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [users] WRITER -- INVISIBLE SPACE
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
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