no middle dots

users
#1

hi!

i'm a (very) new macbook user & as such ignorant. also, i've to complete a
book of mine before handing it over to publisher. in TextEdit, there seems
not to be a shorter-than-paragraph highlighting possibility (confirmed by
lots of comments), so i downloaded .DMG file from
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-x/ site. now i can
highlight whatever i want, but i can't activate the so-called 'middle
dots'--empty-spaces-marker between words and other units. but i badly need
to see them because the book will be published from the manuscript-file and
i wouldn't count on editor to do such fine work. when i press the icon that
i know to be for that purpose, it only displays the enter-marks.
i've been using LibreOffice for years while on my old Linux-based laptop
(and was in this list too, now subscribed anew), and that manuscript was
written in LibreOffice Writer. i mention it to illustrate i know a thing or
two about LOWriter.
i trust it's something easy that just doesn't leap to mind!

regards
:sunglasses:

#2

I guess the button you pressed is the mirrored P one.

In this case it looks really a weird behavior.

What version of LO are you using?

Sometimes I had such problems too, but with Tab symbol...

Another thing you could try to check is on the settings (CMD + ,): there is
a section where you can specify what to see and what not when you activate
the "non printable symbols" functionality.

#3

Ann Must wrote:

hi!

i'm a (very) new macbook user & as such ignorant. also, i've to
complete a book of mine before handing it over to publisher. in
TextEdit, there seems not to be a shorter-than-paragraph highlighting
possibility (confirmed by lots of comments), so i downloaded .DMG
file from https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-x/
site. now i can highlight whatever i want, but i can't activate the
so-called 'middle dots'--empty-spaces-marker between words and other
units. but i badly need to see them because the book will be
published from the manuscript-file and i wouldn't count on editor to
do such fine work. when i press the icon that i know to be for that
purpose, it only displays the enter-marks.

I assume this is View > Formatting Marks? Which marks are shown can be configured at Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids - make sure "Spaces" is ticked under "Display of".

#4

Interesting. I didn't know about the option of turning off the display of some of the non-printing characters. Thanks. I found it under Tools

#5

That's what I was meaning, but I'm on mobile phone and just have to rely in
my memory :wink:

#6

just repeating on general address:

it's LibreOffice_5.3.0_MacOS_x86-64.dmg , so it claims on the file.
downloaded it from https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-x/ and
did everything it instructed. if i open a page, i don't see anything that
says Tools. just pictures--well markings of the function. i'm so new i
can't make a screenshot here, what a pity. there r lot of those functions,
one fancier than other--i think i don't need 4/5 of them. yes, the
function-marker looks like P in mirror--the same it was in Linux-LO,
Windows and everywhere else.

annmust.com

#7

Macs are different! For Tools | Options..., read LibreOffice | Preferences.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#8

if i open a page, i don't see anything that
says Tools.

As said by the other user, preferences are under LibreOffice menu, close to
the Apple symbol. I suppose you know that in MacOs the menu bar is on the
very first line on the top of the screen, detached from the program window.
I also suggested shortcut CMD + , to get there quickly and check what's
selected to be visible.

just pictures--well markings of the function. i'm so new i
can't make a screenshot here, what a pity.

The shortcut for screenshot is SHIFT + CMD + 4 (if I'm not wrong, I'm still
on mobile phone :slight_smile:

there r lot of those functions,
one fancier than other--i think i don't need 4/5 of them. yes, the
function-marker looks like P in mirror--the same it was in Linux-LO,
Windows and everywhere else.

Well, it was just to understand if we were talking about the same thing.

annmust.com

it's LibreOffice_5.3.0_MacOS_x86-64.dmg , so it claims on the file.
downloaded it from https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-
x/ and did everything it instructed. if i open a page, i don't see
anything that says Tools. just pictures--well markings of the function.

i'm

so new i can't make a screenshot here, what a pity. there r lot of those
functions, one fancier than other--i think i don't need 4/5 of them. yes,
the function-marker looks like P in mirror--the same it was in Linux-LO,
Windows and everywhere else.

annmust.com

That's what I was meaning, but I'm on mobile phone and just have to rely
in
my memory :wink:

Il 19 feb 2017 2:41 PM, "Robert Funnell" <robert.funnell@mcgill.ca> ha
scritto:

> Interesting. I didn't know about the option of turning off the display
of
> some of the non-printing characters. Thanks. I found it under Tools
>
>> Options > LibreOffice Writer > Formatting Aids > Display of.
>>
>
>
> I guess the button you pressed is the mirrored P one.
>>
>> In this case it looks really a weird behavior.
>>
>> What version of LO are you using?
>>
>> Sometimes I had such problems too, but with Tab symbol...
>>
>> Another thing you could try to check is on the settings (CMD + ,):
there
>> is
>> a section where you can specify what to see and what not when you
activate
>> the "non printable symbols" functionality.
>>
>>
>> hi!
>>
>> i'm a (very) new macbook user & as such ignorant. also, i've to
complete a
>> book of mine before handing it over to publisher. in TextEdit, there
seems
>> not to be a shorter-than-paragraph highlighting possibility (confirmed
by
>> lots of comments), so i downloaded .DMG file from
>> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/install-howto/os-x/ site. now i
can
>> highlight whatever i want, but i can't activate the so-called 'middle
>> dots'--empty-spaces-marker between words and other units. but i badly
need
>> to see them because the book will be published from the

manuscript-file

#9

Looks like a bug, please report it (I remember fixing this issue on
master, but that probably was post 5.3).

Regards,
Khaled

#10

new development: there was LibreOffice in the top bar when my work was up
open! jeez, it comes and goes, i may swear it wasn't there B4. sadly, it
doesn't solve my problem, as in the Preferences -- Formatting Aid the Space
dot was already checked. i unchecked it, then checked again--no change!

#11

it begins to seem like something serious now

annmust.com

#12

By the way, the menu bar changes upon the window selected :wink: