Comment 99 for bug 129403

Hi - I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their contribution to this
issue. I would say more but am moving flat and have only just assembled my
computer temporarily to read my email...

My only quick comment is that 'I assume you mean that if a user types scads of
spaces within a paragraph, they pretty much deserve whatever ugliness they get'
sums it up very well for me. It is in fact the essence of wysiwyg.

As a naive user when I type a space I expect to see it at the cursor, not at the
end of the previous line, or anywhere else. When I type a character, space or
otherwise, up against the margin, I expect it to wrap to the next line not carry
on into the margin. The result may be dreadful to the purists, but there are no
surprises for me and if I don't like it I can correct it until I do. Or ask
someone more knowledgeable for guidance on a better way of achieving my aims.

I don't think it's the job of the software to save the user from himself, rather
it is to present the simplest behaviour that meets his expectations. When I get
settled in a day or two I'll look more at this but would recommend looking very
carefully at ms word - when I still used it I was never aware of the end of a
line as a concept so it's obviously doing something right.

Anyway, thanks again.