Description: The spaces between words is missing, tabs and CR (at least) are in a too high position. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Writer 2. Type some words, separated by spaces, tabulations 3. Hit SHIFT + ENTER to put a Carriage Return Actual Results: The spaces between words is missing, tabs and CR (at least) are in a too high position. Expected Results: Dots between words, other symbols centered in vertical position. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36
Created attachment 131348 [details] Missing symbols and-or misplaced
Created attachment 131349 [details] Misplaced Tabs
Created attachment 131392 [details] screenshot Can confirm absence of blue dots for space characters within text although correspondent option is enabled in Formatting Aids options. Downgrade to 5.2.5 resolves issue.
I've noticed on last attachment that tab symbols are centred, but also that MacOs version is more recent than mine, that is 10.8.5. So the behavior is different among versions of MacOs.
Confirming both on Version: 5.3.0.3 Build ID: 7074905676c47b82bbcfbea1aeefc84afe1c50e1 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.3; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group The space characters are not displayed. Tabs and line feed characters are displayed too high (above the centre of the line on which text is written).
@Khaled : anything to do with the recent changes in core text display code ?
This is fixed with commit https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f8edca85216b46b266fc5dba3103da57e5975be, the fix should appear in 5.3.2 release and possibly 5.3.1 if the uplift to 3-5-1 branch is approved.
Khaled Hosny committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=2a923986349ab3dd765f1dc5890cf98ee4e6deac&h=libreoffice-5-3-1 tdf#106096: Fix visible space on Mac with the new layout engine It will be available in 5.3.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.