Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

Hi :)
The 
Tools - language - Hyphenation seems to be like a spell-check or grammar-check 
that you run through after finishing editing a document, or after you already 
have a chunk of text to test it on to see how it behaves.  It doesn't seem to be 
something that stays on during edits.  

Regards from
Tom :)





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From: never punctual <neverpunctual@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 8:07:00
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their 
starting line?

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I guess hyphenation could be useful in
some cases, but it seems to be more of a luxury for me to have that feature
at the moment because I'm still not sure how the Tools --> Language -->
Hyphenation option works.

However, I did look into the Word Wrap option. All the options under Format
--> Wrap are greyed out, and I think this is why:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=32373&start=0

I think that Word Wrap option refers to wrapping around pictures, and not
what I want to do (leave the first part of the long word on the line it
started on). I think this is why it's greyed out by default; I would have to
paste a picture and select it or something in order to set those Word Wrap
options.

Ron, I think your workaround is very clever, and it worked perfectly with
URLs at least. After inserting a space to split the URL, I basically created
2 separate URLs that I could fix by editing the hyperlink. In fact, I can
generalize this option to long words that aren't URLs; it would actually be
easier in those cases because I would just have to choose a place to split
the word and not have to worry about fixing the hyperlinks to make them
clickable.

But is there a less time consuming and more standardized option? The short
term problem with this workaround is that I have to guess at where the word
should be split. It would be easier of Libreoffice Writer gave the option of
allowing the long word to continue until no more characters fit in the
original line instead of just bumping the whole word down to the next line,
because then I won't have to figure out the exact point at which no more
characters would fit. Splitting it with a space means the user is left to do
all the work that could be automated by Libreoffice.

The lack of this feature bothers me so much that I'm tempted to learn C++
just to add it :(

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