WD 7.04 Full-Justified Text Problem

[mwenz]

Ok. I will admit I have not and likely will not build an actual web site in Xara.

But I do like to play. And I am not certain whether there is a difference in XDP versus WD.

I have attached a web file as exported from XDP7. I get the same results with the xar version. As one can see inside the file, there are two columns and they are linked. Both columns end up equal.

I think there are two issues:

(1) When viewed (F12), the righ-hand column extends lower.
(2) The first paragraph in the right-hand column, while beginning in the last paragraph of the left-hand column, inherits the 12px first paragraph indent. The code also shows this.

So. Is there a means of linking text frames and avoid the two things above?

Take care, Mike

[Drwyd]

Hi Mwenz

If designing for the web use whole pixel units throughout. The only browser that will play up is Safari. And then only a little.

Drwyd

Edit:- I would also recommend even pixel sizes for the fonts. e.g. 12px 14px 16px (96px = 1 inch)

[mwenz]

Ah, Drwyd, thanks for that.

I see that you are not using the "HTMLBlockText" on the two frames. This does avoid issue two I mentioned above because of the gif files (I suspect).

Take care, Mike

[Slick368]

After working with this issue for a couple of weeks since my initial post, I have discovered that the problem only occurs when the following conditions exist:

• Text justification is set to FULL
• A line ends with a period AND there are two spaces after the period before the next sentence begins (which, at least in the 80's when I took keyboarding in school, was the way to do things)
• Text copied from Word, WordPerfect, etc is pasted via Ctrl-V and 'Unformatted Text' is selected to paste the text into the document

I have overcome the problem by ensuring that each sentence ends with a period and ONE space between the period and the start of the next sentence. When dealing with paragraph ends, I start at the period ending the paragraph and delete EVERYTHING up to, and including, the first letter of the new paragraph. I then re-type the period, add my new-line (or two if I have an empty line between paragraphs), tab to my indent tab stop, and type the first letter of the new paragraph. The other thing I do is copy from the source, be it Word, web browser, whatever, paste it into Notepad, then select it all from Notepad, copy, and paste into WD. Only then can I ensure that the problem does not appear for ANY browser (even Opera, which was being a total B*#CH!). My observation is that 95% of the time, the problem is the two spaces ending a sentence which also ends a line. The other 5% I have attributed to copying the material from a formatted source, then attempt to use the 'Paste as Unformatted Text' function in WD.

The problem resolved, with a couple of extra steps which are a PITA and which, IMHO, given all the awesome things WD7 can do, you'd think it could get something like this right. But, it is what it is, and at least I can move forward now with WD7. I was ready to hang myself from the tree out back if I had to go back to 'Microsoft Frustration Web'.

[PeteA]

very useful thread. I've had exactly the same issues, but only with DP7 - specifically opening DP6 websites in DP7 and then exporting to find text formatting problems like this.