Is there a way to force justified text to left align new sentences? 
Author: Gabriel C.
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Is there a way to fix the justified text so that it does not indent the first word in new sentences? Justified text should always be aligned with the left and right column even if there are spaces there and should not have spaces prior to a word in each column.
You can see an example in the attached file or at http://sursushi.com/ where the column text does not always align to the left-hand side. There are multiple occurrences of this depending on your viewing screen size.
I know that this is likely caused because new sentences have a double space rather than a single space, but if I change my sentences to use a single space, it looks weird and is poor English.
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Hello Gabriel,
It seems there is a blank space in the text. Can you please check if before the word is a blank space and in case remove it and test it again?
Many thanks!
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Claudio,
It does not do this if there is a single space after a period, but because I use double space after a period, and if the new sentence happens to fall on a new line, the space appears before the text.
It is normal practice to double space after a period, but it is not normal for justified text to show the space in the begining of a line.
Thanks!
Gabriel. If I was to write you a letter I would use 2 spaces after a period (because Word is not very good as a wordprocessor and does not easily produce an em space like WP51 did). This habit normally carries over to my emails, but on websites I yielded years ago. Until recently WX5 "ate" the second space and only displayed one. When I first created websites long before WX5 I had to resort to unbreakable spaces to force the second one to display.
Today if you google "one space or 2 after a period" you and I both loose. It is no longer considered normal.
If you stop using double spaces after periods, you will not have the issue of a space occasionally displaying as the first character on a line.
:-)
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Yeah, but why not just fix it? Sure, they don't consider it broken, but what is the downside to just changing it to view properly? Microsoft word, Word Perfect do not do it. Even free wordpad doesn't do it. Why does X5?
Hello Gabriel,
The text editor is meant to convert in HTML code what you enter and if you add double space then it will show a double space and not remove one.
You can suggest it with an "Idea" post so it will be taken in consideration for the ffuture releases of the program.
Many thanks!