However, if you want to enhance your document, the tools are waiting. Most of the time, you can trust the code to have a default that is, if not perfect, at least good enough for your purposes. For most purposes, the average user hardly cares about the length of the line that separates the main body of text and a footnote or the spacing between a bullet and a list item. Even if you use styles, you might not have noticed them fully. If you format manually, you may be completely unaware of them. In fact, while not complete, Writer’s features are advanced enough that it should hardly be considered a word processor at all.Īdmittedly, the features of Writer often go unnoticed. As a result, they made sure that Writer was not simply a word processor, but a layout program as well – to the benefit of free software users ever since.

According to Mathias, when the Writer module was first developed several decades ago, its programmers were told they would have to use it to document their work. You can repeat it to get rid of triple spaces as well.Years ago, Elizabeth Mathias, an employee of Sun Microsystems, told me a story about StarOffice, the proprietary program that became, and later LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice. Find and replace all single letter words after you finish with your document.Ĭtrl+F example () I am from Poland, so had to figure this out to have my thesis formated properly (one letter words should not be on the end of the line). The special character by itself has 0-width and the following 'space' character will be adjusted as expected and will look perfect while using justify alignment. This will move your short word to the next line. The space is apparently glued to the word that follows it, which is already in the next line. this will glue the regular 'space' character to the letter or short word, which you want to be moved to the next line. Put 'no-width no brake' right after the letter and before normal space. Just put this formatting mark after the short word you want in the next line and before space character after it. Insert->formatting mark->no-width no brake Setting tools->options->language settings->languages->enabled for complex text layout (CTL) I elaborated on that and found good way to get non-breaking space behavior and justify alignment work together in openoffice 3.

Openoffice space between lines