My text alignment is "Align Text Justified" but there are some places where I'd 
like two particular adjacent words to stay exactly one space-width apart, while 
the rest of the text in that paragraph is justified.  So far the only 
workaround I've found is to select the two words and set "Manual Tracking" to 
whatever negative percent value looks good.  I have many places where I'd like 
this effect, and manual tweaking is a lot of work.  The negative percent I need 
is different in each case depending on how justification has changed the word 
spacing of that particular line, so I'm not seeing how to script this.

I think it would be ideal if there were some character that printed as a space 
but was not considered a word delimiter by the justification algorithm.  I'm 
open to using any Unicode character out there.  In all cases where I need this 
effect the two words in question would be the first two words of the Scribus 
paragraph.

My document is the Bible in traditional two-column pages, where each verse 
(except the first verse of a chapter) has the verse number as its first word.  
If that verse is also considered by the Bible to be the start of a new 
paragraph (which is not a Scribus paragraph since Scribus sees each verse as a 
distinct paragraph) then the second word of that verse is the pilcrow 
character, and in that case I want the pilcrow to not float out into the rest 
of the justified line.  Instead I want the pilcrow to always be one space width 
away from the verse number.

Thanks.


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  Matt Miller
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