[Scribus] Hyphenation

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer
Tue Feb 14 00:03:15 CET 2006


Hi Rich,

Am Montag, 13. Februar 2006 23:52 schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> > Well, this doesn't work with me either. Running 1.3.2. cvs Jan23-06 and
> > Ctrl+Shift+- simply doesn't work.
>
> Louis,
>
>    Oh, darn! Some lines have large spaces that could be filled if I was
> allowed to hyphenate the first word on the following line. Is there any way
> to do this with 1.2.4.1? I've tried in the SE, too, with the same lack of
> results.

Did you check your settings for hyphenations? Hyphenating a word manually is 
impossible if it's not allowed to do this in two or more subsequent lines. 
Pls. read the tool tips in the dialog.

>
>    How about highlighting the space and surrounding characters, then
> putting in negative tracking? A horrible kludge, perhaps, but the big
> spaces are not attractive, either.
>
> Rich

Cheers,

Christoph



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