Commit Re: layout engine crazy (refuse to use bugzilla)

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Fix full justification bugs described by Denis Heuer

All the justification bugs you described are fixed now.

Cheers

Martin

>
> Hello,
>
> I installed the latest 2.1.7 which should have fixed about 70 bugs. In my
> case there only came up several bugs. The layout engine was always crazy
> but now it seems to put a space after every paragraph. The last line of a
> justified paragraph looks weird after having re-arranged the paragraph,
> and only doing something in that line, like deleting this useless space at
> the end of the line, corrects the layout error.
>
> Cutting some text and placing it into the same line changes the font from
> bitstream to times. I also could not find any option for setting the
> default font to bitstream (the system font).
>
> Another interesting case is if I press accidentially on one of the columns
> buttons. Pressing undo works but all paragraphs of the document have mega
> spaces between the words. The paragraphs are all wrongly wrapped and must
> be corrected by hand (pressing space and deleting it afterwards, or
> similar). I then close the document and re-open it.
>
> It seems that different actions start different layout routines in the
> code. There should be only one way of producing the layout. Loading the
> document produces different layout than changing paragraphs or switching
> between views and modes. This appears mainly for justified text.
>
> A very interesting error appears in the footer. One document has the
> following line in the footer:
>
> <page> of <number of pages>
>
> The line is centered and looks like:
>
> 3 of 27
>
> After closing and re-opening the document, the line looks like:
>
> 27 3 of
>
> Astonishingly, this does not happen when I open the document from dvd-ram.
> Both dvd-ram and my system are using utf8. However, I think the problem is
> related to the formatting on the medias being interpreted differently by
> abiword.
>
> Ahh, last but not least: My system language is german. Abiword recognizes
> this and tries to find the german dictionary. However, only about five
> terms in the whole application are in german, the rest is in english.
>
> Abiword is a really weird program. There are so many misbehaviours that I
> could write my master thesis about it. Shall abiword be what mozilla is
> for WWW?
>
> Dennis
>
Received on Wed Sep 22 12:02:19 2004