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--- Additional comments from wi...@openoffice.org Thu Sep 9 06:34:32 +
2010 ---
Let me add:
First, wow, this request if for OOo 1.1.4 (five years ago), and it's not fixed
even in 3.2. Ok, I'd like to demand multiple spaces also. To begin with, Unicode
has a rich collection of spaces. There is another request that deals with OOo
treating those right. Even for character sets where these spaces do not exist,
OOo could synthetically compute them. For example (using mostly German phrases)
a Geviert (em-space) should correspond to the font-size (with of an 'M'
typically). In addition to that there should be a thin-space with half of the
width, plus possible Achtelgeviert (1/8), Viertelgeviert (1/4), and
Drittelgeviert (1/3).
Even the very old UNIX formula editor eqn had two widths of spaces, nemely '~'
a space, and '^', a thin space.
So back to Unicode: I'll list some of the obvious spaces known in Unicode (see:
Mapping of Unicode characters in Wikipedia):
U+200B zero-width space
U+200C zero-width non-joiner
U+200D zero-width joiner
U+0020 space
U+00A0 non-break space
U+2060 word-joiner
U+2002 En-space
U+2003 Em-space
U+2006 Six-Per-Em space
U+2007 figure space
U+2008 punctuation space
U+2009 Thin space
U+200A Hair space
U+205F Mathematical space
U+202F Narrow no-break space
U+2062 invisible times
U+2063 invisible separator
(the last two used for mathematical expressions)
Related to spacing might be also:
U+2000 En-quad
U+2001 Em-quad
U+2011 Non-breaking hyphen
U+00AD Soft hyphen
So OOo should know about the meaning of these characters when doing formatting
(line breaks, hyphenation, etc.) and searching, but should also provide an easy
wa for users to use (i.e.: enter) such characters.
Final note: For languages that do not use left-to-right, top-to-bottom text
align ment, there may be more spacial characters to consider. Forgive the
simple-minded European ;-)
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