Hi :) To me some of this sounds like it's going into "desktop publishing" rather than just word-processing. Writer is generally much more of a desktop publishing than Word.
However something like Scribus or another proper desktop publishing program might allow a lot more finesses. I've never had the patience to learn Scribus but i found that Inkscape offered me some interesting options such as moving letters within a word so that the gap around narrow letters (such as "l") and wider letters (such as "w") looked more comfortable rather than being technically correct but looking slightly wrong. To a large extent non-monospace fonts already do that. I get the feeling that Writer defaults to sorting out some of that issue too. I think that is one of the many reasons Writer documents tend to look far better than ones done in Word but a proper desktop publishing program should probably give far more control over that process. Inkscape is really not a desktop publishing program - it's for editing scalar-vector graphics - but my 'art' had a couple of words in it. Scribus is freee and OpenSource but i found it too difficult to figure-out in the less-than-no-time i had on the rare occasions i kinda needed a DTP. It was faster for me to stick with doing horrible kludges to force things to work with 1 particular machine and 1 particular printer. Regards from Tom :) On 30 April 2016 at 01:20, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:02 30/04/2016 +1200, Zed Noname wrote: > >> Mike Scott wrote: >> >>> Sample: try putting this into an A4 page, 2cm margins, TNR 12pt, fully >>> justified). You should get 4 lines, of which the third has 3 long words >>> with large spacing. >>> >>> F ads dfg sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf F ads >>> dfg sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf F ads dfg >>> sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg XXX gsd fgsdf >>> ddddddddddddddddddddddd sssssssssssssssssssssss >>> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa dfg sdfg sdf >>> gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf >>> >> >> Very strange here. Copy and pasted sample and set margin, text type and >> text size as suggested and then did copy + paste. Text appeared as above. >> > > The poster's original was one continuous paragraph which, as he said, > would spread across four lines when flowed into the specified document. > Somewhere in the mail transmission system or in your mail client, that > single paragraph has been split into six paragraphs, which will not show > the effect, of course. If you reassemble the single paragraph, you will see > what he means. > > Oh, and if you insert a line break (not a paragraph break) after "XXX", > you will see exactly the improvement he would like to see happen by default. > > Brian Barker > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
