[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 48654] Display of non-printable characters on the end of line

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48654

--- Comment #1 from Peng Wang <pengwg at gmail.com> 2012-04-14 14:32:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> It was indicated that this bug was fixed in Libreoffice 3.5 release note:
> 
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Non_printable.png
> 
> But it works only when the text is in "align left" style.
> 
> Under any circumstances it is inconsistent when spaces in the text are not
> shown. Because when the text flow changes those spaces will be shown again in
> the middle of line unexpectedly and disrupt quality and layout of the document.

I want to add that I understand the spaces at the end of line shouldn't be
visible in print out.

MS office's solution is to put those spaces beyond the text/page margin.
Libreoffice should come up with a similar or better solution.

The current behaviour is also anti-intuitive. Imagine that I type a word near
the end of line, then I type a space but suddenly the cursor doesn't move.

--- For a new comer he will - intuitively try to type space again but cursor
still not move. Well in his first impression that the software is buggy.

--- For me I have to tell myself - the last space I typed is really there and I
didn't typed it multiple times and keep typing next word which will appear next
line.

I think that if this problem can be fixed, the office suite will feel much more
polished.

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