[scribus] Align Text Justified Failing at Bottom of Frame

[Matt Miller]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 23:32, Andreas Mair wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> looking at your screenshot, left page. I'd say the lines at the bottom are
> not "in line", just look at the space below the last lines.  
> I'd suggest to use "Align to Baseline Grid" (you use "fixed linespacing").
> If you use it, the last line of a column will not move too near to text
> textbox bottom border.

Thanks, I'll look at that again. I did try that earlier, but the results were terrible, with massive amounts of vertical spacing. I'll see if I can adjust that.

>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>
> Am So., 13. März 2022 um 04:24 Uhr schrieb Matt Miller <
> matt.miller at fastmail.com>:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 16:34, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> > On 3/12/22 18:22, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> >> On 3/12/22 17:26, Matt Miller wrote:
>> >>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 01:49, Andreas Mair wrote:
>> >>>> Hi,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> here it looks ok, too. But I don't have that font.
>> >>>> Maybe you can provide a screenshot?
>> >>>
>> >>> I intended to include the font in the zip file when I did "Collect for
>> Output." I guess it still requires a manual font install. Anyway, here's a
>> screenshot of pages 4 and 5:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/La_test_4-5.png
>> >>>
>> >>> Notice the problem at the bottom of the second column of the left-hand
>> page, and at the bottom of the first column of the right-hand page.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> What you're demonstrating is the problem of using full justification
>> for narrow columns, and where multi-syllabic words are likely. This is not
>> a Scribus problem.
>>
>> Well, I agree that with narrow columns and less-than-aggressive
>> hyphenation the final appearance of the text might not be the best, but, I
>> would expect a lot of space between the words (along with a bit of glyph
>> stretching), if that's what's needed to justify. In some places in my
>> documents I do see lines with only three or even two words on them and a
>> ton of space in between the words. That's fine. My understanding is that I
>> can allow more hyphenation if I want to reduce that.
>>
>> I think there is a Scribus bug in some cases, though. I altered my
>> original test so that nothing but two-letter words are on the last line at
>> the bottom of the column in question and on the first line of the next
>> column. Still the last line of the column is not justified. Here's the new
>> test case and the new screen shot. The bottom of the second column on the
>> left page is the problem:
>>
>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/Not-Fully-Justified-2.zip
>>
>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/La_test2_4-5.png
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I would add that the answer to this is to vary the space between
>> > letters or the width of spaces to squeeze the text as needed.
>> >
>>
>> Okay, I can try that in my Python script, as I try to work around this
>> problem.
>>
>> > Greg
>> >
>> >
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