Is non-breakable space width bug on the list to be fixed? I wait for the solution since Corel 9 which I first used to some folders and layouts.
There is previous discussion on this at http://community.coreldraw.com/talk/coreldraw_graphics_suite_x7/f/810/t/46682
The conclusion there was that the problem is in specific fonts. I just did a quick test to confirm this -- Swis721 exhibits the problem, Times and Arial do not. So at first sight, it may be the font designer rather than CorelDraw that is at fault.
That said, I did the same test in Open Office and even for Swis721 it renders the nb space at the same width as the normal space -- so either Open Office is ignoring the font designer's parameters or its not as simple as a font error.
Whatever Open Office is doing, maybe CorelDraw could also do -- but here we have a problem. If Corel has been doing it like this (whether correctly or incorrectly) since Corel 9, there will be an enormous number of documents which unwittingly rely on those characters having different widths, so changing them now is going to require everybody to recheck their paragraph flows. That would not be a good situation.
harryLondon said:... but here we have a problem. If Corel has been doing it like this (whether correctly or incorrectly) since Corel 9, there will be an enormous number of documents which unwittingly rely on those characters having different widths, so changing them now is going to require everybody to recheck their paragraph flows. That would not be a good situation
Yes, CD users do seem more squeamish than users of other applications when it comes to changes that would cause text reflow. I have hundreds of InDesign documents going back to CS2. I can pretty much guarantee that if one of those documents is brought forward exactly one revision--not necessarily a major revision--there will be text reflow. Adobe changes the text engine on very single major version and most dot revisions. I can think of only once in the past this didn't occur. Presently, they just updated CC2014 and miracles of miracles, the text engine didn't change.
Progress isn't always pretty. But as long as it is progress, I don't really care about something like text reflow. It's just part of the fun of progress. This issue specifically, though, is one reason why I leave previous versions on various computers. If I needed to make a simple, small change, I wouldn't want to reformat an entire document. I would wait to move it forward into newer versions for a more major revision.
Mike