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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0015502 | Scribus | Text Frames / Story Editor | public | 2018-12-08 11:42 | 2018-12-08 13:43 |
Reporter | Franz Gratzer | Assigned To | jghali | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
Platform | GNU/Linux | OS | Debian | OS Version | 9 |
Product Version | 1.4.6 | ||||
Summary | 0015502: Better auto letter spacing (and hypenation) with justified text | ||||
Description | Most layout programs obviously use a default letter spacing that is not set to one specific value but to a range of possible values. Scribus by default uses a fixed value of zero. Therefore, designers need to adjust justified text very carefully in order to get a somewhat even grey. Most of the time you would get rather big holes in the lines because Scribus doesn't seem to be able to just use the best fitting letter spacing value in a pre-defined range of for example -4 to +4. Is there any secret to auto-hyphenation? It did never work for me. Even if I used English text and didn't try to do it with German, which I normally would need most of the time. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Type any text long enough to fill more lines in a not to wide column in a text box. | ||||
Additional Information | The lack of this feature leads to bad design results if people are not very cautious or lack time and knowledge to optimize line breaks by hand. And it needs to be done all over again if even small corrections to the text come in. | ||||
Tags | hyphenation, justification, spacing, standards, text frames, typography | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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1) Assign correctly language to text by setting language in Edit > Styles > Default Character Style. Hyphenation is language dependent, it cannot work correctly if languages are not properly configured. 2) Extras > Hyphenate 3) In Properties palette, use Text > Advanced Settings: adjust word tracking properties an/or glyph extension properties. These properties can also be configured using text styles 4) Ask beginner questions in forums at forums.scribus.net rather than here |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | New Issue | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | File Added: test2.pdf | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | File Added: test2.sla | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: hyphenation | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: justification | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: spacing | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: standards | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: text frames | |
2018-12-08 11:42 | Franz Gratzer | Tag Attached: typography | |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | File Added: 15502_auto_letter_spacing_14x.sla | |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | Note Added: 0045706 | |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | Assigned To | => jghali |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | Status | new => resolved |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | Resolution | open => no change required |
2018-12-08 13:43 | jghali | Status | resolved => closed |
2025-04-27 19:16 | cbradney | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Text Frames / Story Editor |