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0017770ScribusStylespublic2026-03-03 18:26
Reportercebleu Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
OSwindows 10 
Product Version1.6.5 
Summary0017770: Search and replace: allow the insertion of all special chars from the main insert menu
Descriptionit should be possible to insert all special characters from the Insert menu.

Especially, it should be possible to search by spaces and breaks.

It would probably be useful to have the same rendering as if "Show Control Characters" is enabled.
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ale

2026-02-25 17:48

manager   ~0053530

Can you please make a screenshot with "View > Text frames > Show control characters" enabled?

And with only a single word selected (or just the cursor in the middle of the paragraph) instead of the full paragraph selected?

cebleu

2026-02-26 10:41

reporter   ~0053535

cebleu

2026-02-26 10:48

reporter   ~0053536

I think I've found the problem, it's generated with scribus generator and the separators of paragraphs in the googlesheet and csv are linefeed char(10) and not Carriage return char(13), also the text in the frame is viewed like an entiere paragraph. But I don't arrive to find how to fix this, it's a pity !

I tried with encapsuled "" but scribus generator keep the "" in the result, it's not encapsuled.

Would you have a function in scribus to replace \n\r or char(10) with char(13). It doesn't work in fields find and replace.

Thank you so much for your answer. Céline

ale

2026-02-26 13:44

manager   ~0053539

Yes, the screenshot confirms my supposition : - )

And that you did spot it, too.

There is no easy way to replace the line breaks through paragraph breaks.

But you can copy paste them into the "Edit > Search/Replace" dialog to replace them.

To make it a bit simpler, you can copy a text with a bit more than the two signs, paste both in the find and replace fields, and delete the extra characters.
line-breaks.png (10,191 bytes)   
line-breaks.png (10,191 bytes)   

cebleu

2026-03-03 13:26

reporter   ~0053560

Hello, thank you for your answer. I've found other way to do it :

I edit the scribus file .sla with notepad++ and I replace :

<breakline/>
       <breakline/>
with
<para PARENT="paragraphes-desc" LINESP="12"/>
and it works and it's done for all frame text, exactly what I need.

It will be great if you could integrate the use of linefeed or other utf8 characters in grep and search for next versions.

ale

2026-03-03 18:26

manager   ~0053562

I've modified the title and description of this ticket to match your latest comment.

I hope, I understood correctly : - )

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2026-02-25 16:48 cebleu New Issue
2026-02-25 16:48 cebleu File Added: Capture d’écran 2026-02-25 174724.png
2026-02-25 17:48 ale Note Added: 0053530
2026-02-26 10:41 cebleu Note Added: 0053535
2026-02-26 10:41 cebleu File Added: Capture d’écran 2026-02-26 114110.png
2026-02-26 10:48 cebleu Note Added: 0053536
2026-02-26 13:44 ale Note Added: 0053539
2026-02-26 13:44 ale File Added: line-breaks.png
2026-03-03 13:26 cebleu Note Added: 0053560
2026-03-03 18:25 ale Summary Version 1.6.2 => Search and replace: allow the insertion of all special chars from the main insert menu
2026-03-03 18:25 ale Description Updated
2026-03-03 18:26 ale Note Added: 0053562