On 01/18/2012 06:29 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2012/1/18 john Culleton<John at wexfordpress.com> > >> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:47:52 +0200 >> Jean Mielot<j.mielot at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I have posted this as a bug, but just wanted to make sure that it >>> actually IS >>> a bug and not possibly fixable somehow. >>> >>> In Indesign when using justified text and forcing a linebreak (to get >>> rid of hyphenated text for instance) - >>> the line is automatically adjusted to fill the space left. >>> >>> Scribus does not seem to do this - which means you either have akward >>> hyphenations or >>> strange unjustified lines in justified text. >>> >>> Any way around this? >> > > Some quick testings reveal that it works in Scribus but you have to get rid > of the space between two words before hitting shift-return to force the > linebreak. Otherwise, with the space left on the previous line, the line > will be left align and you don't want that; leaving the space on the next > line will end up with a line beginning by a space, and you don't want that > either. In both cases, taking away the space will give you the expected > result.
The other thing worth trying or as an alternative is, while in Edit Contents mode, to highlight text which contains the offending hyphenation, then click Extras > Dehyphenation, which will eliminate the hyphenation in that highlighted text only, while maintaining your justification. Greg
