On 2/14/21 5:52 PM, Matt Miller wrote: > 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.
Hi Matt, Here's something you might try. Replace the regular space with 2 thin spaces* (or maybe 3, depending on the width you're looking for). When I tried this, these thin spaces were not affected by justification. (I assume you mean full justification) Greg * Find this with Insert > Spaces & Breaks > Thin Space. Alternatives might be En Space or Mid Space -- neither of these seem affected by justification. Once you find something that works you might set up a keyboard shortcut for it. ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
