https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172899
--- Comment #9 from MartinPC <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8) > The topic was on the agenda of the design meeting but did not receive > further comments. > > Besides the aesthetics all use cases are covered, maybe not to everyone's > full convenience but in general working well. Resolving as WONTFIX > therefore, feel free to reopen. I know this is an inconsequential issue to folks who don't make heavy use of conditional hyphens, but it can be quite an annoyance to those of us who DO (especially if we have marginal eyesight, as it makes text more tiring to proofread). I'm a non-coder, but it seems to me that this problem is likely a whole lot easier to fix than, for example, the atrocious character spacing that can result from the interaction of obsolete LibreOffice code and the HarfBuzz text-shaping engine. Both problems make for a poorly finished, non-professional look and feel. In that connection, a lot of European governments/agencies are apparently poised (once again!) to switch away from proprietary, foreign-owned OSes and apps for reasons of national security and digital sovereignty. If *I* were positioning LibreOffice to compete against the likes of Collabora, OpenOffice, and Euro-Office — and maybe for a shot at significant public financial support — I would do everything possible to up my game, even where "aesthetics" (which often overlap with readability and usability) are concerned. I understand that fixing LibreOffice Writer's horrible character spacing may well be a Herculean task, but if wrongly displayed soft hyphens are a relatively easy fix, I'd say it's worth attempting. I'll tell you what: I've been using LibreOffice since version 4.x, and I don't recall noticing the soft hyphen problem before. If it's a regression somewhere along the line, knowing when it occurred might help you bug-fixers pinpoint how it happened. I'm still trying to recover from a BRUTAL second round of Long COVID, which inflicted a serious hit on my stamina and ability to concentrate. Nonetheless, I'll try to start building some parallel installs of old versions to regression-test the bug, and if I spot a regression point, I'll reopen the bug. Again, I'm not at my best, so it could take a while. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
