affinity publisher Affinity Publisher v2 Justify Left

[Archangel]

Running Affinity Publisher 2 v2.04 on Windows 10.

I copied some text from Microsoft Word (a story I have written). I wanted to see how Affinity handled the warning to readers. Experimenting with type sizes using the Verdana font I noticed an anomaly in the second paragraph at 16 points. I'm not sure why this justification glitch is happening.

Please look at the image and afpub file to see if this is a known issue. Other point sizes justify correctly. Although full justification looks quite odd.

Stoneydale justify left.afpub

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, Michael S Harvey said:

I'm not sure why this justification glitch is happening.

Because the Spacing section has [No Change] for the Last line outdent. The 0 (zero)mm setting is inherited from the Normal Paragraph Style.

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Because the Spacing section has [No Change] for the Last line outdent. The 0 (zero)mm setting is inherited from the Normal Paragraph Style.

True.

However, what I see as the problem is that the "." after the word "violence" is hanging outside the text frame. If I replace the "." with a "," the same happens. However, if I replace it with any other character (even punctuation marks like ";") then the justification takes the word "violence" and the punctuation to a new line.

I'm not sure which problem @Michael S Harvey was meaning.

[Archangel]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

True.

However, what I see as the problem is that the "." after the word "violence" is hanging outside the text frame. If I replace the "." with a "," the same happens. However, if I replace it with any other character (even punctuation marks like ";") then the justification takes the word "violence" and the punctuation to a new line.

I'm not sure which @Michael S Harvey was meaning.

Fascinating and extremely curious. It does appear to be related to the optical justification issue using the font setting. Although turning it off for all paragraphs creates its own open quote glitch.

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, Michael S Harvey said:

It does appear to be related to the optical justification issue using the font setting.

For me, turning off Optical Alignment for that paragraph did not make a change, and the "." stayed outside the Text Frame. So I'm not sure that's what it's related to.