Hi James, On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 20:56 +1300, James C wrote: > Justified text changes the kerning (space between letters) of words on > a line. The cursor positioning in writer seems to assume, falsely, > that all of the adjustment happens in the spaces between words. So > the cursor ends up in the middle of, or on the wrong side of, letters. > This matters to me because I write texts for a university which > requires justified paragraphs
> Questions: > - is anybody currently working on this? (If so, they should > continue, and I should work on something else.) I know nobody working on that ATM, feel free to go ahead with that. > - does anybody have hints, for where I should start reading the code? > (I suspect pango, in which case I may end up trying to push > changes to them; are they receptive?) You can have a look at this unfinished patch: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/patches/dev300/vcl-kerning-fix.diff It may give you some hints about where to start. > - if I start working on this, should I record a bug? Sure, it's always good to report a bug... who knows what will happen later to this email ;) Thanks for pushing the kerning further in Writer :) -- Cedric _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
