Thank you, Gregory.<br><br>I wasn't sure if this was some sort of functionality that I hadn't encountered before, so I didn't overload the initial question.<br><br>As it turns out, it was nothing to do with Scribus. I downloaded some Goudy fonts from fontyukle and the one I chose for my headings (<a href="http://www.fontyukle.net/en/DownLoad-Goudy-Old-Style-Normal-Italic+Regular.ttf">Goudy-Old-Style-Normal-Italic</a>, regular weight) appears to have an error in the font metrics for the "(" character. I can reproduce the exact problem in OpenOffice.<br>
<br>I had a first line indent of -10mm, left indent of 20mm, 0 right indent, fixed linespacing, 16pt, no optical margins, everything else plain jane.<br><br>On a humbling note, I had been trying to figure out what was going on for quite a while, when my wife came in the room. I told her what problem I was having, and she said "Oh, that happens to me at work. Try a different font.". I guess I won't tease her about the three icons on her desktop (much) any more.<br>
<br>Cheers!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 02/05/2011 01:32 PM, Garry Robbins wrote:<br>
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I have a simple text line such as:<br>
<br>
1 Firstname Lastname (1607-1677)<br>
<br>
which results in some sort of tabbing / justification / extra white space<br>
between the "e" of "Lastname" and the left parenthesis "(".<br>
<br>
The style for the line includes a left tab stop between the line number and<br>
the Firstname.<br>
<br>
I've tried nonbreaking spaces, but nothing short of replacing the "(" with<br>
"[" seems to stop the extra whitespace.<br>
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It would help to know what justification you're using, whether you are using any tabs, and whether you are using any advanced options for letter/word spacing.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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