On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:45:59 -0400 Helge Hielscher <hhielscher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:41:45 +1000, Owen Cook wrote: > > Which is easier, to write your words and let the plug-in insert the non > > breaking spaces, or to write your words and manually insert the non > > breaking > > spaces? > > Why are both systems exclusive? My problem with the current solution is > that it works silently in the background. > A solution that replaces (or helps replacing) breaking spaces and > shortwords with the appropriate non-breaking space would give more control > to the user. This would also keep the spaces when exported to other media. > > Regards, > Helge > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > Czech, Polish, and Slovak topographies have mandatory rules on non breaking spaces. (The module was created by a Czeck contributor IIRC). These rules are probably not so strict in other languages. The module is easily hackable, though you need the source, and build from source to implement a revised shortwords plugin. Just looking at this brand new Ubuntu-7.04 installation, I see there is no source code for it (1.3.3.8 27 Feb) so I would have to get it if I wanted to play with the shortwords module. Owen
