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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000418 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2004-04-04 23:12 | 2008-01-30 12:16 |
| Reporter | linuxlingam | Assigned To | avox | ||
| Priority | high | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Platform | all | OS | all | OS Version | all |
| Product Version | 1.3.4cvs | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 1.3.5svn | ||||
| Summary | 0000418: justification with user-defined inter-letter and word spacing in percentage | ||||
| Description | the existing justification engine creates 'rivers' of vertical white spaces in paras. donald knuth had some amazing techniques to control these. one simpler and rudimentary way of doing this is to allow for user-defined minimum, optimal, and maximum spaces between letters, and between words. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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This is an absolutely essential feature for any good DTP program. At the moment, Scribus seems to justify text using the "fill the line, and then either hyphenate or expand word spacing" method. This is a very poor method, and produces the excess vertical space mentioned above. Microsoft Word is guilty of the same, unless you go turn on "do full justification like Word Perfect" under compatibility options. Pagemaker, InDesign, and Quark all presently do a better job than Scribus. min/max/optimal may be crude, but at least it allows the space between words to shrink (within limits) as well as to expand, producing a much more pleasing result, and more compact text as well. edited on: 26-06-04 23:46 |
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on the roadmap for 1.3.4, changing the status to acknowledged |
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already fixed in 134, but forgot to close there |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-04 23:12 | linuxlingam | New Issue | |
| 2004-06-26 21:43 | mwdiers | Note Added: 0001847 | |
| 2004-06-26 21:46 | mwdiers | Note Edited: 0001847 | |
| 2006-04-12 10:24 | mhanski | Priority | normal => high |
| 2006-04-12 10:24 | mhanski | OS | Fedora => all |
| 2006-04-12 10:24 | mhanski | OS Version | Core 1 => all |
| 2006-04-12 10:24 | mhanski | Platform | AthlonXP => all |
| 2006-04-12 10:24 | mhanski | Product Version | => 1.3.4cvs |
| 2006-04-12 10:33 | mhanski | Relationship added | related to 0000128 |
| 2006-04-12 10:37 | mhanski | Relationship deleted | related to 0000128 |
| 2006-04-12 10:37 | mhanski | Relationship added | child of 0000128 |
| 2006-04-12 22:45 | mhanski | Note Added: 0009873 | |
| 2006-04-12 22:45 | mhanski | Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2006-04-23 16:58 | mhanski | Relationship added | related to 0001297 |
| 2006-05-16 21:50 | christoph_s | Relationship added | related to 0003828 |
| 2006-11-21 14:47 | christoph_s | Relationship added | related to 0004572 |
| 2007-06-05 21:48 | avox | Status | acknowledged => assigned |
| 2007-06-05 21:48 | avox | Assigned To | => avox |
| 2007-06-05 21:50 | avox | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2007-06-05 21:50 | avox | Fixed in Version | => 1.3.5cvs |
| 2007-06-05 21:50 | avox | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2007-06-05 21:50 | avox | Note Added: 0016448 | |
| 2007-06-06 21:12 | christoph_s | Status | resolved => closed |
| 2008-01-30 12:16 | christoph_s | Relationship deleted | child of 0000128 |
| 2015-09-17 20:08 | Kunda | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Story Ed/Txt Frames |
| 2015-09-17 20:12 | Kunda | Category | Story Ed/Txt Frames => Story Editor / Text Frames |
