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Hi James,

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 20:56 +1300, James C wrote:
Justified text changes the kerning (space between letters) of words on
a line.  The cursor positioning in writer seems to assume, falsely,
that all of the adjustment happens in the spaces between words.  So
the cursor ends up in the middle of, or on the wrong side of, letters.
 This matters to me because I write texts for a university which
requires justified paragraphs

Questions:
  - is anybody currently working on this?  (If so, they should
continue, and I should work on something else.)

I know nobody working on that ATM, feel free to go ahead with that.

  - does anybody have hints, for where I should start reading the code?
    (I suspect pango, in which case I may end up trying to push
changes to them; are they receptive?)

You can have a look at this unfinished patch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/build/tree/patches/dev300/vcl-kerning-fix.diff

It may give you some hints about where to start.

  - if I start working on this, should I record a bug?

Sure, it's always good to report a bug... who knows what will happen
later to this email ;)

Thanks for pushing the kerning further in Writer :)

--
Cedric


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