Print composer tables add a line break to the last word with fixed column width

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Author Name: Dan Isaacs (Dan Isaacs)
Original Redmine Issue: 20546
Affected QGIS version: 3.4.1
Redmine category:map_composer/printing

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Tables with fixed column widths and 'wrap text' options have the last word placed on a new line consistently. This rather makes the wrap text option redundant as it cannot be used in any professional report.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Does it work as expected in 2.18?

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Author Name: Dan Isaacs (Dan Isaacs)

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Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Does it work as expected in 2.18?

I don't actually have a copy of 2.18 any more, but I have just found this old Stack Exchange Question, so it seems to have been a problem back in August 2017.

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/251999/attribute-table-width-and-line-breaks?rq=1

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Dan Isaacs (Dan Isaacs)

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Just for anyone coming across this dealing with the same problem, a rather messy workaround is to always make sure long text is suffixed with a double space. Layout interprets the second space as a new word and puts it on it's own line. You get a line break at the end of each section, but it's better than a mysterious trailing word.

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Author Name: Marco Hugentobler (@mhugent)

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Applied in changeset a774499.

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