[scribus] Justification (mainly)

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 05.03.2012 11:18, schrieb Thor Ewing:
> From: Gregory Pittman
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:04 PM
>>
>> On 03/04/2012 04:18 AM, Thor Ewing wrote:
>> > Dear Listmembers,
>> >
>> > Less drastic for me as a user, but still rather irritating is that
>> when > I “Get text” from HTML, it randomly omits some characters and
>> white > spaces. I suspect that this might be a bug, but there could be
>> another > explanation.
>> >
>>
>> Not sure what ends up missing, but Scribus doesn't handle all HTML
>> tags well, so perhaps there were some characters lost because of that.
>>
>> It usually can manage bold, strong, and italics, sometimes certain
>> font characteristics, but I wouldn't advise importing from HTML on a
>> regular basis. You might do better to import to Open Office and
>> converting there before importing to Scribus.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Hi Greg
>
> I've been working with a document which was prepared in Word 2003. I'm
> now working with Word 2007.
> When I get text from Word formats (DOC or DOCX) it loses all formatting,
> so I tried saving it as an HTML file. It keeps the italics nicely, but
> loses occasional white spaces between words. I've looked at the source
> code and can't see anything odd about the lost spaces.
> I've also tried saving the document as an Open Office file from Word
> 2007 (I haven't tried installing Open Office) but it still comes up
> without formatting.
>
> My document has a lot of foreign words in italics and it's a pain to
> format it all again, so I'd like to do it automatically if possible. But
> it's also a pain if I have to go through and add in new white spaces.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Best wishes,
> Thor
>

Hi Thor,

do you know HTML syntax? In HTML, you can use one whitespace only, i. e. 
if you insert more, they are ignored. Line feeds and other control 
characters are ignored and/or interpreted as whitespaces. So, a 
whitespace in HTML is only a "new word", a linefeed is only important 
for the maker of the page.

I could imagine that the whitespaces you miss are those which are 
ignored LFs or other formatting characters in the source HTML file. They 
are displayed as whitespaces by your browser, but in fact there aren't 
any in the original text string, and that is the kind of string Scribus 
is handed over.

Just an idea...

Regards

Rolf