On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, at 13:17, Silvain Dupertuis wrote: > *2D is not a soft hyphen*, it is a hyphen!
Right. Thanks. I do have "AD" hyphens in my file. Sorry for the typo. Too many different dashes are floating around in my head! > If you have used it as a soft hyphen for hyphenation, then you should > first replace them > with a *true soft hyphen: AD (U+00AD)* > > * Here is a soft hyphen between xx and zz : xxzz > * and this is a normal hyphen xx-yy > > > Le 22.02.21 à 21:02, Gregory Pittman a écrit : > > On 2/22/21 2:49 PM, Matt Miller wrote: > >> I'm loading my book into a text frame chain from a text file. I want to > >> control which words can be hyphenated, so I have the soft hyphen > >> character, hex 2D, in particular words throughout my text file as I wish. > >> I right-click on the frame and use the "Get Text..." dialog to load the > >> frame, but the soft hyphen character is displayed in the frame as a black > >> diamond with a question mark in it, and the character is not treated as a > >> soft hyphen. If I delete that character in Scribus and use "Insert | > >> Character | Soft Hyphen" or Ctrl+Shift+-, then everything works as > >> expected. > >> > >> I've verified that my text file encoding is UTF-8, and that "UTF-8" is > >> selected in the "Get Text..." dialog. I've tried my text file with or > >> without a BOM, and still the results are the same. I'm on Windows, and If > >> I change both my text file encoding and the "Get Text..." encoding option > >> to Windows-1252 then the soft hyphen comes across properly, but then other > >> characters from my file, for example the pilcrow, are goofed up. My text > >> file has some pretty obscure Unicode characters, so I think I need to > >> stick with UTF-8. > >> > >> Should I look at tags and text filters or some scripting as a workaround, > >> or is there some easier way to do this? Shouldn't a soft hyphen character > >> in a text file be treated the same as one inserted from the Scribus insert > >> menu? > >> > > Hi Matt, > > > > It's probably something about the encoding. > > The quickest fix might come from using Search/Replace. You can copy/paste > > the unwanted character into the search box. > > > > Greg > > > > ___ > > 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 > > > -- > Silvain Dupertuis > Route de Lausanne 335 > 1293 Bellevue (Switzerland) > tél. +41-(0)22-774.20.67 > portable +41-(0)79-604.87.52 > web: silvain-dupertuis.org <http://perso.silvain-dupertuis.org> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20210222/d9933390/attachment.htm> > ___ > 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 > -- 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
