[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 #18 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
Sorry, clearly not a Harfbuzz issue--spaces are stamped correctly between
actual text.

Whole question is interesting in that MS Word apparently had (through Word
2010, and still supported for .doc binary formats) a '"Wrap trailing spaces to
the next line" (for compatibility with WordPerfect)'.  Also referred to a Word6
handling.

But there is no apparent functional use for the spaces extending beyond the
paragraph/page margin, and MS Word user forums advise to use a <Shift>+<Enter>
to insert a line break.  Smells like DF to me--MS's "solution".

Why are we following MS's lead here for handling excess spaces?  Seems we
really should be breaking lines at paragraph/object margins--wrap like other
sane word processors and text editors (including MS Notepad).

MS Word user forums suggest: 'Select' the full line of text (including all over
the edge spaces), and 'Center' it (with <Ctl>+E shorcut) to delete all extra
spaces, then still selected 'Align it' where preferred.  Unfortunately, in LO
Writer the centering action does not remove the extra spaces in similar
fashion.

@Attila, truncate on centering might be useful if we continue with parity in
function.

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