Justify text still doesn't work correctly in Pages 2.0.1

Hello Martin,

what in detail is the problem? As I can see it works fine with my Pages V2.0. But I haven't upgraded to V2.0.1. Please describe the what you have done and what happens with more detaile, that helps (in most cases) to see the problem with less questions.

i've noticed tabs dont work in right and centred text

Hello John,

this is because of the "sero point" where the calculation between the "text paragraph align" settings and the ruler differ. In "left aligned" and "justified" the calculation begins from the left, similar to the ruler, so all works fine. But in "centered" and "right aligned" the calculation begins from the center or from the right, but the ruler calculation is in both cases from left to right.

This is a limitation of the overall system. To get this right, the ruler has to change it's calculation direction by setting "centered" and "right aligned", too. But you continue writing from left to right, so what about the inversion of the "left" and "right aligned" tab stops?

I don't know if you have done this, but you can send a feedback to the developer with some suggestions about this: http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

This looks like a bug in Pages to me, but there is no real requirement for it to work this way. Other apps have a force-justify feature to do what you're looking for.

There are two other ways to achieve what you want:

1) adjust the character spacing percentage for each line so it fills the line.

2) use non-breaking spaces in the lines, and a general space at the end of each line.

Hope this helps,
Chris

Power Mac G4 Cube, PowerBook G4, Power Mac G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hello Martin,

Chris is absolutely right. The missing force-justified function means, the last line in a text paragraph will not be stretched if the last character will be a specific distance away from the paragraphs right border. This is for avoiding very odd text stretching which can end in not readable words.

Hi Martin,

A non-breaking space is typed by option-space in most applications including Pages.

Chris