Issue 58478 - ask where to break (long) words in (narrow) columns of tables
Summary: ask where to break (long) words in (narrow) columns of tables
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2005-11-26 15:01 UTC by meywer
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:39 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description meywer 2005-11-26 15:01:41 UTC 
Der völlig regelwidrige (automatische) Wortumbruch (langer Wörter in schmalen
Spalten) in Tabellen ist nicht schön - besser wäre, wenn nachgefragt würde, wo
das Wort getrennt/ wo ein weicher Trenner eingefügt werden soll...
Comment 1 lars 2005-11-26 18:48:48 UTC 
reporter wishes to be asked where words should be breaked when necessary to 
avoid overlap in next cell instead of automatic wrapping.
according to 
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I 
reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to new
Comment 2 ace_dent 2008-05-16 01:42:19 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

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has not been updated within the last 2+ years. Please consider re-testing with
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Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
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Comment 3 lars 2008-05-17 15:00:45 UTC 
Issue is still valid.


Clarification:

Consider a column with a width of 4 characters. If I write Hello in it, it gets 
wrapped like this:

Hell
o


This has no language-related founding. It should be avoided and replaced by a 
proper hyphenation option. The current Text Flow option Table|Text Flow|Wrap|
Column|Before|After is not clear at all (if it is related at all).

I change the issue type to enhancement as the feature hyphenation already exits 
principally.
Comment 4 meywer 2008-05-18 22:26:20 UTC 
The problem is still the same.
Comment 5 meywer 2008-05-18 22:28:25 UTC 
sorry - I hadn't seen the comment of lars.
Comment 6 meywer 2009-09-06 21:27:03 UTC 
I wonder nothing has changed for 4 years. Tables in writer aren't so seldom.
Words longer than a column as well.


bla       |
blabibabo |
blu       |

is stupid,
better would be

bla blabi-|
babo blu  |


And writer is even more stupid:
In my table appears:

Gesamtve
rbrauch

If I put something short before: 

der
Gesamtv
erbrauch

it doesn't even break

der Gesa
mtverbrauch

Anyway it should be appear a hyphen and it should be appear at the right place
(and the user should be asked, where this riight place is).

As hyphenation exists, so why only in "normal" text but not in text in tablecells???