Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64201
unexpected wrapping of space characters
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
It appears that OOo is only displaying/supporting strings of spaces the width of a cell long. odf xml having <text:s text:c=""/> elements larger than the width cause the following text to be shown on the next line eg a cell that is 19 characters wide and the element: <text:s text:c="190"/> will move the next word to the next line rather than ten lines down. The same can be demonstrated in the writer application itself. Write a word in a table cell. place the cursor/insertion point before the word and press the space bar. The word will wrap to the next line and then stop. Additional spaces are stored but not displayed. Additional backspaces are required to delete the unseen spaces and move the word back to the first line. Why is this important? I am attempting to develop a document that encodes semantics in text layout ie there is a one to one correlation between words at any given position between columns. Cheers Paul
Created attachment 35603 [details] test scenario
confirming the part concerning the spaces in the Writer table cell in Writer; note that you may have to enter several spaces before the word wraps to the next line.
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA: The behavior in table cells is the same as in a normal text. So I removed "in table cells" from the summary. issue 64223 ("caret jumps to beginning of line in cell when spaces entered at end of line in table cell") describes what happens when CONTINUING to entere spaces (they dissapear from view all but one). SBA-FL: In my opinion, all this "space behavior" can be handled/discussed/solved along with issue 20878 ("Q-PCD Show spaces at end of a line in Writer"). But I don't want to close the other two as duplicates just yet. Please proceed.