Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22378
Auto-hyphenation + fancy apostrophe = chaos (SO7)
Last modified: 2004-09-16 12:49:44 UTC
In SO7, possessives like "butterfly's", "telepath's", "Megan's" don't divide properly at the end of lines when auto-hyphenation and fancy apostrophes are being used. They extend into the white space both onscreen and on the printer. This worked properly in SO6. Adding an optional hyphen fixes the problem (except for leaving the overhang into white space as an artifact until the screen is scrolled up and down or otherwise refreshed). In each case the word should be divided there anyway, so adding an optional hyphen shouldn't matter. Sometimes the line is divided at the apostrophe, and it doesn't appear fancy, as it should. Or the word stretches into the white space and, again, the apostrophe is plain. In both cases, "s" after the apostrophe is the first character on the next line.
Change version as reported using SO7 = OOo 1.1 regression from SO 6, working properly in SO 6
JohnV (Senior Member on the SO7 forum) said: "I was using plain apostrophes and when I changed the fancy (U2019) I could reproduce your error. In addition, if I started wiith plain and then did find & and replace with fancy, the error was introduced so that won't even serve as a work around. .... It's not just XP, I'm using Win 98."
reassigend to jw
confirmed on OOo1.1.0 but can not reproduce this in OOo1.1.1b set to fixed
fixed -> closed
closing