[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 82374] Autohyphenation at 11pt in all fonts leaves no space between last character and hyphen

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82374

--- Comment #20 from Frank <foberle at enteract.com> ---
I happened to have just installed Linux Mint 18.2 on a new Intel machine that
has LibreOffice 5.1.6.2 as part of its default apps. Since I hadn't yet removed
LO, I retested for this bug and can confirm that it is still present.

On another Ubuntu 16.04 AMD machine, I still had a LibreOfficeDev 5.3.4.0.0+
(later versions were all removed since LO has too many "issues" for my
particular uses), so I fired that up and tested. I can confirm that this bug is
still present on that combination as well (not surprising; Mint is an Ubuntu
derivative).

As I mentioned in Comment 18, I really suspect this has to do with LO's use of
Linux font information system calls (the same reason Writer does bizarre and
inappropriate font substitutions without reporting them to the user).

Before (mostly) abandoning LO, I learned quite some time ago to never print
from within Writer anyway - I mostly "printed" to pdf and then let Adobe Reader
do the actual printing (indicating that the generated pdf is done properly, and
that Adobe Reader has a way of getting font metrics on its own).

The steps for reproducing this bug are well documented - even in earlier
postings on this bug tracker - so I'm rather fascinated by the notion that -
because no one has complained about this for more than a year - it might have
magically fixed itself and gone away. While I obviously can't speak for
everyone, it is fairly clear that bugs only get worked on (much less actually
fixed) when they're simple to fix; fair enough - it's free. It's also clear
that not considering certain classes of bugs (like text rendering) "in toto"
(rather than as individual quirks) insures that they'll probably never be
fixed.

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