formatting a space inside a text won't format but move the space

Bug #254686 reported by Sebastian Lisken
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The attached zip file contains to simple SVG files produced with Inkscape 0.46 under Windows 2000.

The first contains just a text object whose content is "half-width space". The space is a regular space. I'm trying to simulate a half-width space by reformatting that space between the two words, giving it half its size (48px before, 24 after).

When I try to this in the obvious way, something strange happens. I select the space with the text tool and use the drop-down to enter the new size. The space then disappears, and if I go to the end of the text with the "End" key, I see a space has been added to the end of the text. (This space is size 48, not 24.)

The XML structure looks even more strange after this action, as the "s" of "space" has been put into a tspan tag of its own. This is shown in the second SVG, produced by saving the file just after the action described above.

Tags: text
Revision history for this message
Sebastian Lisken (sebastian-lisken) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Pablo Trabajos (pajarico) wrote :

Confirmed on Win XP 0.47-pre1. I see the separate tspan's too. I tried to change the size of the space (any value will do) and the space sometimes disappears, sometimes gets displaced two or three chars to the right.

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

related: Bug #272100 “Space character gets deleted on font-size or font-style change”

su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: text
su_v (suv-lp)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

No longer reproduces with Inkscape 0.91 as reported - neither is the space deleted, nor appended to the end of the text (when applying the font size change via 'Fill & Stroke' dialog).

Linking as duplicate to bug #272100 (see comment 7 there).

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.