Bug 130721 - non-breaking space looks ugly in justified text, naming mix up
Summary: non-breaking space looks ugly in justified text, naming mix up
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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6.4.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2020-02-16 22:16 UTC by mikolajmm
Modified: 2020-12-07 04:13 UTC (History)
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Description mikolajmm 2020-02-16 22:16:49 UTC
tl;dr: non-breaking space looks ugly and it's typographic issue.

Explanation

There are few things about non-breaking space (ctrl+shift+space) in LibreOffice Writer, and it's even not clear to me where the bug exists: in behavior, used name, or translation.

As far as I know there are few types of spaces:
- non-breaking space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
- hard space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_space
- soft space (seen on wiki Hard space but do not understand)

I do not know how Polish names match English names here:
- "spacja niełamiąca" (literally non-breaking space): is a space which does not allow to break the words between the paragraphs, but is stretched in justified text in the same way as normal space,
- "twarda spacja" (literally hard space): it's "spacja niełamiąca" but it has constant width even in justified text,

so if the name meaning explained above are the same in both languages then:
    (bug) In LibreOffice non-breaking space behaves as hard space

else if non-breaking space means the same as "twarda spacja" then:
    (feature request) it would be awesome to have the "spacja niełamiąca" implemented in LibreOffice, so people are able to write properly looking documents.
Comment 1 Dieter 2020-03-15 16:51:31 UTC
AFAK, non breaking space (ctrl+shift+space) in LO is Unicode U+00A0. So it's different from hard space and NOTABUG.

Regarding to the wikipedia article, hard space is in most cases the same as non breaking space. So I don't understand the problem

So it seems, that LO has normal non breaking space. For other signs like narrow non breaking space (U+202F) you have to use the unicode. See also overview in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leerzeichen (I only culd find it in German)

Does this solve your problem => NEEDINFO
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2020-05-09 11:03:39 UTC
How does the ugliness manifest? A screenshot would be nice.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2020-11-06 04:21:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2020-12-07 04:13:37 UTC
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