Bug 167298 - Add visualization to justified lines exceeding maximum word spacing
Summary: Add visualization to justified lines exceeding maximum word spacing
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: László Németh
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
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Blocks: Paragraph-Alignment
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Reported: 2025-06-30 12:37 UTC by László Németh
Modified: 2025-06-30 16:03 UTC (History)
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Description László Németh 2025-06-30 12:37:31 UTC
Description:
Similar to Hyphenation & Justification tools of DTP software, add visualization for  bad typesetting, i.e. lines with too big word spacing.

Steps to Reproduce:
Check a justified text.

Actual Results:
It's possible to find only the lines with very big spaces easily, because it's depend on the context, too.

Expected Results:
Add a tool, which visualize the lines with bad typography better, comparing their spaces to the maximum word spacing set in the paragraph.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
See e.g. Hyphenation and Justification Violations in Adobe InDesign.
Comment 1 Commit Notification 2025-06-30 16:03:36 UTC
László Németh committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/c05bc38067b2ab61ae919fb1fef1381343d03844

tdf#167298 tdf#166113 sw word spacing: add word spacing indicator

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.