On Sun, Feb 14, 2021, at 16:26, Gregory Pittman wrote: > 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.
Thanks, I think one of these special spaces will work for me. -- Matt Miller mailto:matt.mil...@fastmail.com ___ 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
