Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18215
Non-Printing Character Alignment when Non-Printing Characters have unexpected width
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Followup to issue 12697. There are some fonts that either do not have the symbols required to print the non-printing-char indicators or where the non-printing-char indicators have a width different from their corresponding non-printing characters. E.g. the MidDot and the Space have a different width. The first case is much more common. Check in the Insert->Special_Character dialogue whether a font has the non-printing-char indicators. If there are none the fallback fonts indicators are used which are usually not matched to the original fonts non-printing chars.
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SBA: According to the OpenOffice.org roadmap (see http://tools.openoffice.org/releases) this issue was retargeted to "OOo Later".