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

Hi,

On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 00:07 -0700, never punctual wrote:

> 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.


  Sorry, I should have been clearer. When I tested it, it worked on the
entire document without having to select any text. It appears to work
much like spell checking typically does.


> 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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Jay Lozier
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