Issue 42168 - M-dashes handled improperly at line breaks
Summary: M-dashes handled improperly at line breaks
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.4
Hardware: All All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 56272 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2005-02-07 02:50 UTC by stharward
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description stharward 2005-02-07 02:50:58 UTC 
If an m-dash is placed near the end of the line, the linebreak should not happen
between the dash and the word that precedes it:

A sentence like this that has a dash
--should never be formatted as so.

It should always be formatted like this--
so that the line break happens after the
dash.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-02-07 08:11:28 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 haxwell 2005-02-08 00:59:15 UTC 
confirmed in 1.9.74 / Win 2000 SP4
Comment 3 stefan.baltzer 2005-02-10 15:43:35 UTC 
SBA: At times (OOo Beta cand. build 680m78), both ends of an em dash are
possible line break points. See also issue 39642. 
Reassigned to FME.

SBA-> FME: Beside several "opinions" and  "cases", I am not aware if there exits
a "rule" how to handle em dashes concerning break points. A hint (at least
concerning user's expectations ;-) is the fact that MS Word does NOT put em
dashes at the beginning of a line.
Comment 4 lohmaier 2007-03-23 18:59:03 UTC 
*** Issue 56272 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***