Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 29664
use of special character em-dash causes incorrect line spaceing
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Using OOo-1.1.2-rc2 Using the em-dash special character U+2014 for some fonts sometimes causes the line spacing to increase on the screen and on the printed page. This is surprising as the character is a dash eg '-' is not extra high or low. This does not happen ever time I have attached a document with two paragraphs one with the problem and one without. The problem exists with several ttf fonts in including Time New Roman font. I am using Times New Roman Monotype version 2.45, the afm file is produced by the KDE fontinstaller 3.2.2.. I can send the ttf and the afm if this helps to debug the problem. linux 2.6.6 Xserver version 4.4. KDE 3.2.2
Created attachment 15564 [details] document with em-dash line spacing problem
reassigned to US.
Yes, pls. attach the font file and the metric file. Thx. Additionally the fonts.dir files where the font is registered would be of high interest too.
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Created attachment 16106 [details] Times Roman afm file
Created attachment 16107 [details] the times romean ttf file
Created attachment 16108 [details] the fonts.dir file from the font directory
The following two lines look suspicious to me. Not sure if it's a good idea to register the font as a symbol font. But that's probably not the problem here. Regarding the attached bugdoc I noticed that the problematic character is simply set to a different font "Bookman Old Style". The font or its substitution candidate is simply thicker and has a different character leading. =>WFM. timest.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-Medium-r-Normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-misc-fontspecific timest.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-Medium-r-Normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-fontspecific
Looks like a user error. Closing WFM. Feel free to reopen if you have new, substantial findings.