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[Björn Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  [upstream] white spaces disappear beyond right margin

Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite:
  Fix Released
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Released
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  When the very end of a line (right margin) is reached, white spaces entered are not moved to the second line, but hidden from view. (Switch on non-printing characters to view.) 
  White spaces entered at the very beginning of an automatically line-wrapped second line are hidden beyond the end of the right margin of the previous line, only to reappear when the previous line is broken manually by a hard or soft return. When navigating with the arrow keys at the end of a line, the unseen presence of hidden white spaces may be noticed (You have to tap the arrow key as many times as there are spaces, in order to get the cursor to visibly move again). 

  To reproduce: Switch on non-printing characters. Enter a full line of
  text, right up to the right margin. Press enter to go to the line
  below. Input ten white spaces. Move to the beginning of the second
  line and press backspace. The spaces will disappear beyond the right
  margin, but you can still navigate them with the arrow keys.

  This bug has been in previous versions of OO, and I have reported it
  before to the Open Office bugzilla site, a year or so ago. There
  turned out to be, I believe, five different related bug reports in the
  Open Office bug database. This bug breaks the WYSIWYG principle and
  also affects Tables. When a series of white spaces fill up more than
  one line in a table cell, they become invisible, beyond the right
  boundary of the cell.

  Unfortunately, I do not have the knowledge to fix this bug. I think it
  has something to do with the line wrapping functions in OO. When more
  than one consecutive white space is detected, they should be put on
  the next line. A single space at the end of a line may conveniently be
  hidden when it cannot be displayed before the margin, but multiple
  spaces must be detected and moved to the second line.

  Thanks for taking the time to read this. I know you are probably doing
  this on a voluntary basis, and I am grateful for that. But maybe this
  very basic text input bug can be given slightly higher priority. I
  would think many users run into problems with this, especially in
  large manually input documents (theses) it can be a real pain.

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