Justification spreading words "too far apart" [for manual row break]

[lucmat]

I have a collateral issue with justified text that I’d like to solve in some cleaner way.
When there are few words remaining in a line, up to a manual line break, the justification enforcement generates too much spacing between them, leading to a questionable visual effect as in example c1 below

At the same time I can’t use a line break as in example c2, because the paragraph type has a spacing above, or other features that when triggered cause a break in the visual presentation.

With example c2 I can change the second paragraph spacing above it, and resolve the visual issue. This way the first paragraph is terminated without large spacing between words and the second one is in continuity. This is a solution.

I would like to know whether there are other solutions, preventing me to create a new paragraph type on every such case, and using a single type that in some way (…) behaves like this.
I tried playing with Paragraph / Alignment / Justification / Word spacing, but it’s a hack that may work in a specific case, and not for all the paragraphs with a similar problem.

[LeroyG]

You can add a left tabulation mark at the right margin, and add a tab instead of a line break.

[ajlittoz]

There is in fact no need to create an explicit tab stop. The evenly spaced implicit tab stops will do. The important factor is to break the justify algorithm action.

[LeroyG]

@ajlittoz

implicit tab stops

I’m not sure how to.

[ajlittoz]

You simply precede the line break (to be kept) with Tab.

[lucmat]

This is great!
Thanks!

[LeroyG]

@ajlittoz

precede the line break (to be kept) with Tab.

Would require a different approach when the new line falls after the last tab stop.

[ajlittoz]

@LeroyG

Would require a different approach when the new line falls after the last tab stop.

Probably, but I never use linebreak to simulate a reduced-gap paragraph break.

I only use this trick on first line of “outdented” paragraphs when my “defined term” goes beyond the left indent. I want the definition to always start on the indent. For short words, a Tab aligns me on the indent. For long words, this would not work. So, I keep the Tab to end the word and break justification. The linebreak gently aligns my next line on the left indent.

In my workflow, this is legitimate because I still have a single paragraph without semantic breach.

In all other cases, I recommend two paragraph styles with adequate vertical spacing to stick with a clean logical document structure.

[ajlittoz]

A line break does not leave the current paragraph. Therefore the line on which it occurs is not the last line in the paragraph and is submitted to the paragraph-wide justification.

Your screen shot clearly shows you have two different paragraphs: the call-out one with list numbering attached and a “comment” or complementary one. Since these semantic values are different, this calls for different paragraph styles.

This will be the simplest and most reasonable solution.

However, if you insist on creating incorrectly structured documents, you can untick Justify lines with a manual line break in justified paragraphs of Tools>Options, LO Writer>Compatibility.

This should not be unticked on a routine basis. It should be reserved for special usages, such as “special” layout of first line in definition-like paragraphs.