Wrong Curser/Marker position in certain lines

[mick0005]

Hi,

i noticed that I'm not able to set the curser correctly or mark a word correctly in certain lines.
As you can see in my sample screenshot, it happens in (some, not all) lines with an automatic hyphenation and the cursor/mark position acts like the whole word which is hyphenated would be in the next line. In my example i marked the word "Workshops" with a double click on it, it can be clearly seen that the blue mark is wrong (as are the curser positions in that line).

It only seems to appear with the font "Source Sans Pro" as far as I noticed yet.

[Hangman]

Hi @mick0005 and welcome to the forums,

I've not been able to replicate the issue on Windows or Mac with the German Language and Hyphenation dictionaries set. Could you upload the document or a document containing the text frame(s) so we can take a look...

[Komatös]

1 hour ago, mick0005 said:

It only seems to appear with the font "Source Sans Pro" as far as I noticed yet.

Source Sans Pro was replaced by Source Sans 3. Which version do you have installed?

[mick0005]

Example.afpub

Example.afpub

[mick0005]

On 1/10/2025 at 7:55 PM, Komatös said:

Source Sans Pro was replaced by Source Sans 3. Which version do you have installed?

Version 2.010, but I tried Source Sans 3 now, no difference.

[Komatös]

1 hour ago, mick0005 said:

now, no difference.

I have tested your test file with two Windows versions (one of them in a virtual machine) and a Mac, unfortunately I could not reproduce the behaviour either.

The only thing I can think of now that might help you is to deactivate hardware acceleration in the Publisher (can be found in the settings under Performance).

[HCl]

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[HCl]

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[Hangman]

On 1/10/2025 at 5:06 PM, mick0005 said:

i noticed that I'm not able to set the curser correctly or mark a word correctly in certain lines.

It's actually the Column End Zone value which is set to 10 mm for the Standardabsatz 1 text style in the sample file... Setting the value to 6 mm or less removes the problem though interestingly the problem only appears on Windows...

[MikeTO]

@Hangman is right, it's actually the combination of using Column End Zone with Justified text. These two features don't work together.

We've seen this before and a variation of it is logged as AF-2478 although I don't think it encompasses the whole issue.

 

[mick0005]

On 1/12/2025 at 2:53 PM, Circulus said:

It's the minimal word length and the minimum prefix in the hyphenation in the Standardabsatz1 text style.
If I set this to 0 for both options the strange offset disappears.

Thanks, that works, it's a useful solution depite not a logical one.