[scribus] Keep Two Adjacent Words One Space Width Apart

[Silvain Dupertuis]

I am not sure to understand correctla your description,
But I think they might be another way to get the result you need. You could use a TAB to 
position your first word of each verse. You might then need two (or 3) tabs positions 
depending of the number of digits of the verse number. It might be easier than inserting 
two thin spaces everywhere.

As for the tabs position, you set them in the style, where you can adjust it very 
precisely to your convenience.

In any case, it would be relatively easy to insert your special characters (tabs or thin 
spaces) using a regex search and replace on the source file (with a text editing tool), or 
to write a script to do it.

Sincerely
Silvain

Le 14.02.21 à 23:52, Matt Miller a écrit :
> My text alignment is "Align Text Justified" but there are some places where I'd like two particular adjacent words to stay exactly one space-width apart, while the rest of the text in that paragraph is justified.  So far the only workaround I've found is to select the two words and set "Manual Tracking" to whatever negative percent value looks good.  I have many places where I'd like this effect, and manual tweaking is a lot of work.  The negative percent I need is different in each case depending on how justification has changed the word spacing of that particular line, so I'm not seeing how to script this.
>
> I think it would be ideal if there were some character that printed as a space but was not considered a word delimiter by the justification algorithm.  I'm open to using any Unicode character out there.  In all cases where I need this effect the two words in question would be the first two words of the Scribus paragraph.
>
> My document is the Bible in traditional two-column pages, where each verse (except the first verse of a chapter) has the verse number as its first word.  If that verse is also considered by the Bible to be the start of a new paragraph (which is not a Scribus paragraph since Scribus sees each verse as a distinct paragraph) then the second word of that verse is the pilcrow character, and in that case I want the pilcrow to not float out into the rest of the justified line.  Instead I want the pilcrow to always be one space width away from the verse number.
>
> Thanks.
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