[scribus] Hyphenate Text

Owen rcook at pcug.org.au
Mon Sep 24 21:49:26 UTC 2012


> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:26:00 +1000
> Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:14:49 +0700
>> Erich Dollansky <erich.lists at ovitrap.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a problem getting text hyphenated after switching the
>> text's
>> > language from English to German.
>> >
>> > Do I have to install extra dictionaries? Which one do I have to
>> > install?
>> >
>> > Of course, I did change the paragraph's language to German after
>> > translating it.
>>
>>
>> With no document open, what does properties say about hypenation?
>>
>> You have the choice of three german languages
>>
> I made just a very simple test. I took an old document in English and
> copied an hyphenated frame over. It appeared hyphenated in the new
> document. But it all changed after I de-hyphenated it and tried to
> hyphenate it again. It simply did not work.
>
> I must have something very simple wrong in my setup but I do not see
> it.



OK,

I just tried hyphenation in the latest svn of 1.4.2 and it failed.

Hyphenation and dehyphenation worked in 1.5.0

So maybe there is a bug. This was on Fedora 17. I will try it on some
other distros later


-- 
Owen




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