Bug 67669

Summary:	Make narrow non-breaking spaces visible
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Olivier R. <dicollecte>
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	dicollecte, jbfaure, jorendc, pierre.choffardet
Version:	4.1.0.4 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58434
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	spaces in Writer

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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