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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am not sure to understand correctla
your description,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As for the tabs position, you set them
in the style, where you can adjust it very precisely to your
convenience.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sincerely</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Silvain<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 14.02.21 à 23:52, Matt Miller a
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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