OpenOffice: Meaning of gray shaded Spaces and Hyphens
Question by Guest | 2018-01-30 at 21:31
I got an OpenOffice document with the file extension ODT (Open Document Text) from a colleague.
In this document, there are some strange spaces and hyphens, which are shaded with gray color. I have looked at these signs a little closer, but I can not figure out what that could mean. When printing, the color is not displayed, here the corresponding characters look just like a normal space or a normal hyphen. Likewise, the characters do not appear to be tagged with a background color. The grey color seems to be independent of the highlighting.
Can someone explain to me what those mysterious signs are?
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OpenOffice marks non breaking spaces and hyphens with a gray background.
Non breaking spaces and hyphens are characters that can not be word-wrapped. If you write to a line with a non breaking space or hyphen between two words at the end, you'll see that OpenOffice always wraps the two words together into a new line and never breaks them.
The purpose of these signs is to keep related words together, such as numbers, chemical formulas, or fixed terms. In OpenOffice, you can enter a non breaking space with CTRL + Shift + Space, a protected hyphen can be inserted with CTRL + Shift + Hyphen.
2018-01-31 at 16:06