Bug 67669 - Make narrow non-breaking spaces visible
Summary: Make narrow non-breaking spaces visible
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version: 4.1.0.4 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2013-08-02 12:28 UTC by Olivier R.
Modified: 2014-06-13 19:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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spaces in Writer (8.66 KB, image/png)
2013-08-02 12:29 UTC, Olivier R.
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Description Olivier R. 2013-08-02 12:28:17 UTC
At the moment, non-breaking spaces can be distinguished from common spaces by their grayed background.
But there is no such thing for the non-breaking spaces which are still invisible.

See screenshot attached.

I suggest to display narrow non-breaking spaces with a lighter gray than the one used to show non-breaking spaces.
Comment 1 Olivier R. 2013-08-02 12:29:28 UTC
Created attachment 83540 [details]
spaces in Writer
Comment 2 Olivier R. 2013-08-02 12:30:11 UTC
Correction:
But there is no such thing for the _narrow_ non-breaking spaces which are still invisible.
Comment 3 Jorendc 2013-08-02 22:07:33 UTC
Hi Olivier,

THanks for reporting. Probably easy to do, but I can't find it for now: How to add a narrow non-breaking space. I know a non-breaking space can be added with ctrl+shift+space ... not sure how to do a narrow one :).

Kind regards,
Joren
Comment 4 Olivier R. 2013-08-02 22:42:57 UTC
AFAIK, there is no easy way to type this character with LO. You have to use the Insert Character command. U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE.

But I can easily add this character with my keyboard.
And now French users can easily add this character with the “text formatter”, an extension for LO I wrote to help users to format texts according to French typographic rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space (Section Encodings)
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202f/index.htm
Comment 5 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-09-14 07:25:51 UTC
Changed status to NEW as it is an Enhancement request.

Best regards. JBF


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