[scribus] Forcing line break in justified text

john Culleton John at wexfordpress.com
Wed Jan 18 21:50:35 UTC 2012


On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:47:52 +0200
Jean Mielot <j.mielot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have posted this as a bug, but just wanted to make sure that it 
> actually IS
> a bug and not possibly fixable somehow.
> 
> In Indesign when using justified text and forcing a linebreak (to get 
> rid of hyphenated text for instance) -
> the line is automatically adjusted to fill the space left.
> 
> Scribus does not seem to do this - which means you either have akward 
> hyphenations or
> strange unjustified lines in justified text.
> 
> Any way around this?
> 
> Attaching a screenshot of the problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance
I just wonder why you want to get rid of hyphenated text. When I
was a book reviewer and got a novel with no hyphenation at all I
knew it had been laid out by an amateur, usually one who used
MSWord. 

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