Harold Fuchs wrote:
2008/5/28 Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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I have achieved a Writer document with a "/" as the last character of a line
and "REF/" as the first 4 characters of the next line. That's on Win XP with
both 2.3 and 2.4 (different machines). I use A4 paper size. Try ending a
line with "dd ddd d dd dddd /REF/ ". On my systems (plural) that results in
the leading slash at the end of a line and the "REF/" on the next. It's
*not* as simple as just having a space before the first slash but I haven't
yet been able to find a minimal set of conditions under which it occurs. I
assume the minimal conditions will depend to some extent on the line length
i.e. on the configured paper size and margins.
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Sorry to reply to my own post but it just occurred to me that of course, in
addition to the paper size and margins the effective line length depends on
the font, font size and other character level attributes (bold, italic
etc.). My example used 12 point Times New Roman with no special formatting.
I still can’t replicate this. Perhaps I should reinstall 2.4 again. (I
took it off as I use a lot of outside programs that control OOo and they
tend to get confused when more than one OOo is on the system, usually
using the older OOo when I want to test the newer OOo which I find works
mostly perfectly in the areas I really need.
But, as previously mentioned, / should not normally be a break character
at all according to Unicode specs, except at a much lower level than
normal, e.g. in a line that perhaps contains no other break points in
the final 35 characters than a /.
Does exactly the same thing happen if you use characters like \, *, &, ~
¶ § ¦ ?
Jim Allan
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