[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 155494] Cursor goes beyond margins when typing spaces at the end of a line

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155494

--- Comment #40 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---

Point is that *no* multi-line paragraph would ever begin or end in a run of
<spaces>, only some misguided effort to directly format using spaces. I've no
issue with a 3 or 5 character DF fixed indent, but I personally would not then
attempt to justify that DF line.

As LO is a WYSIWYG editor we have not obligation to retain the spaces--if
anything we are obliged to truncate--bcz they remain in the ODF bloating the
character count (just like MS Word). They occupy space, they respond to edit
cursor, imagine they extend any size calculation of paragraph/page width
requiring crop. There is something there--there should not be.

Unlike a line editor, we deal with paragraphs--and should treat the printing
spaces like the characters they are--ALWAYS.  Force them to wrap, only
exception if the paragraph style or DF is made "justified" and then I'd
truncate a run of spaces down to 2 (to allow word wrap, eventual justification,
and two spaces between sentences). 

Visual action provides immediate visual feedback on the content, and user could
revert if they don't like the trend.

As is we are mixing format with multiple <space> content the text spans.  There
is no need to maintain the multiple space characters on the LO document canvas.
It is counter to style usage and use of multiple spaces are questionable DF
when we have alternatives there as well.

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