[scribus] Line Wrapping Bug

Mike Sleger chappa-ai at q.com
Fri Jul 29 02:37:31 UTC 2011


On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:

> 2011/7/28 Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at q.com>
> 
>> Dang, except now with it aligned to baseline grid the text frame cannot be
>> repositioned on the page.  Well, the frame can be moved, but the text
>> doesn't move with the frame anymore.  There must be a way to align different
>> sized text in a frame to baseline, but still have the text move with the
>> frame?
>> 
>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Mike Sleger wrote:
>> 
>>> Nevermind - I figured it out.  Line spacing cannot be Fixed or Automatic
>> - it needs to be Baseline in order the larger text to remain on the same
>> line as the smaller text.
>> 
> 
> Hmmmm.... I see no reason why we should need to set the linespacing to
> "Align to Baseline Grid" to achieve this. A "Fixed linespacing" should do it
> just the same as the Align to Baseline Grid.
> 
> Quick testings reveal that as soon as there is a difference of over 3,24
> points between a word and the following one, the following one is pushed on
> the next line. Setting at smaller type has the same effect.
> 
> If this is not a bug, I wonder what else could it be. To the least, it's an
> annoying limitation.
> 
> Louis

Correct, I'm going to file a bug report.  If fixed line spacing is supposed to align characters on each line to their respective baselines, then it's not working when there's a font size difference of more then about 3 pts.  The text wraps and that sucks.  Furthermore, when using Align to Baseline Grid, the text correctly aligns to the baseline, but then the line spacing cannot be adjusted, and worse, the text doesn't move with the text frame!  So, as an immediate workaround, I need to create a separate text frame for the larger text, introduce whitespace in the smaller size frame, and overlay the two frames.  Silly.

>>> 
>>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Mike Sleger wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've got a single sentence paragraph that occupies two lines in a text
>> frame.  The font size is 10, except for two words which should have a size
>> of 14.  Doing so, though causes the size 14 text to start on a new line,
>> even though they're at the left of the text frame and there is no line
>> return before the larger text.  Story Editor confirms all the text is one
>> sentence, one paragraph.  Any ideas why larger characters in a text frame
>> automatically start a new line?  Very frustrating...
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