On Monday 15 September 2008 10:20:51 pm Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2008/9/15 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > > > On Monday 15 September 2008 04:18:45 pm Louis Desjardins wrote: > > > 2008/9/15 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > > > > > > > I have a file in 1.3.3.12, It is one page, all text, imported > > > > from OO. I can't get the justification feature to work. Do I > > > > need to turn off something from the OO import? > > > > > > John, > > > > > > You mean the text won't hyphenate at all? > > > > > > There is nothing specific to be done at OO.o level, afaik. > > > > > > You can check the hyphenation settings in the Scribus > > > Preferences > Hyphenator as the rules that are there might be > > > too tight for what you need to achieve. You have 3 fields IIRC. > > > Word length, Number of consecutive hyphens, and Language. > > > > > > Then, your text frame must be activated in order to be able to > > > hyphenate. You may need to deselect and reselect the text > > > frame. By all means it should work! > > > > > > Please let me know! > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > Louis > > > > Justification and hyphenation are two different (but related) > > animals. If I have no style at all then both hyphenation and > > justification can occur. But then I lose the paragraph indents. > > If I apply a style then justification disappears. > > > > So perhaps my question is, how do I define a style to contain > > both justification and a paragraph indent? > > There is a bug. When you edit the text, hyphenation goes away. You > have to re-hyphenate. There might be another one (yet, related). > Once you apply a style, dpes hyphenation go away as well? The > workaround should then be to re-hyphenate. If this is correct, then > this is a bug and it should be filed as such. > > Sorry I cannot test at present time. I can only go as IIRC. There > is a way to have a styled text hyphenated. You cannot put > hyphenation as part of the stylesheet instructions yet. But you can > apply the stylesheet, then hyphenate. The annoying part of this is > when you edit the text further down, you lose hyphenation. But you > can re-apply it. > > I hope this helps, > > Louis
The issue is justification, not hyphenation. My current test file is hyphenated, and has paragraph indentation applied by a style. But I cannot apply full justification with even margins. I will try importing plain text instead, and see if that helps. Thanks, and stay tuned for further bulletins. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
