[libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread charles meyer
Hi Folks, I’m trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I have the paragraph symbol turned on so I can see that paragraph icon at the end of every line of text. Some text words have larger spaces between the words than others. The larger spaces make the sent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Joe Conner
Select the text, FORMAT -> PARAGRAPH -> ALIGNMENT Tab -> OPTIONS, then put the radio button bullet on left justify. On 04/28/2016 10:55 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I’m trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I have the paragraph symbol turned on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Kruno
28.04.2016 u 20:24, Joe Conner je napisao/la: Select the text, FORMAT -> PARAGRAPH -> ALIGNMENT Tab -> OPTIONS, then put the radio button bullet on left justify. Or he could hyphenate words. On the first word after awkward line hit Ctrl + - (ctrl and that hyphen character just right of the pe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-28 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:55 28/04/2016 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: I'm trying to adjust spaces between characters in text words formatted for a resume. I very much hope you are not. Unless you are German and using letter spacing to indicate emphasis, you should not be tinkering with spacing between characters w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words

2016-04-29 Thread anne-ology
interspersed below, From: Brian Barker Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:45 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words To: users@global.libreoffice.org At 13:55 28/04/2016 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: I'm trying to adjust spaces between chara

justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Mike Scott
On 29/04/16 05:45, Brian Barker wrote: . Text can be distributed within lines in various ways: left aligned, centred, right aligned, or justified. The first three modes will maintain constant, standard spacing between words, but the last intentionally expands spaces between words in order to

Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread zed
Mike Scott wrote: > On 29/04/16 05:45, Brian Barker wrote: . > > Text can be distributed within lines in various ways: left aligned, > > centred, right aligned, or justified. The first three modes will > > maintain constant, standard spacing between words, but the last > > intentionally expan

Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:02 30/04/2016 +1200, Zed Noname wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Sample: try putting this into an A4 page, 2cm margins, TNR 12pt, fully justified). You should get 4 lines, of which the third has 3 long words with large spacing. F ads dfg sdfg sdffg sdfg sdfg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf F

Re: justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-05-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) To me some of this sounds like it's going into "desktop publishing" rather than just word-processing. Writer is generally much more of a desktop publishing than Word. However something like Scribus or another proper desktop publishing program might allow a lot more finesses. I've never had