Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.user > #187164

Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?

From Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to be adjacent - how to fix?
Date 2017-09-25 06:30 +0200
Message-ID <uttbQ-1jN-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <utrWp-wi-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw


On 25/09/17 16:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> This is a strange and unexpected "feature" in the latest Libreoffice
> upgrade on Debian stable:
> in Writer, I can no longer enter more than one space at a time
> (between words or sentences)!
> This is not like at the end of a line where excess spaces are still
> there just not seen, and the corresponding number of spaces can be
> deleted - this is different, where additional spaces are simply
> IGNORED!
> "How bizzarre!" as they say :)
> Anyone know how to revert this "fantastic" new feature?
> :D

There is an option: Tools / AutoCorrect / AutoCorrect Options ... / 
Options / Ignore double spaces. Is it enabled? It does not work for me 
but disabling it might work for you.

I also have a vague recollection of HTML editors not allowing multiple 
spaces. I do not know if this applies to LibreOffice Writer.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars to  be adjacent - how to fix? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-09-25 05:10 +0200
  Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars  to be adjacent - how to fix? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-09-25 06:30 +0200
    Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more) space chars  to be adjacent - how to fix? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-09-25 07:00 +0200
    SOLVED - Re: libreoffice writer no longer allowing two (nor more)  space chars to be adjacent - how to fix? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-09-25 07:30 +0200

csiph-web