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#1
Text and Typography / Re: non-breaking space don't w...
Last post by a.l.e - Today at 09:47:56 PM
Seems to be working here:

non-breaking-space.gif

Some remarks:

  • No need to use the story editor for editing this type of text: just double click on the text frame and type your text.
  • If you're checking the non breaking spaces, you should activate "View > Text Frames > Show control characters".
  • I guess that you did not insert a non breaking space, but a thin space or a normal space: you need a non breaking space or a narrow non breaking space.
#2
Text and Typography / non-breaking space don't work
Last post by astroboy89 - Today at 09:29:22 PM
Hello,
Non-breaking space don't work as expected, as you can see on the attached screenshot. (the colon should stay with the word "insécables"). It used to work, though! Am I doing something wrong?
Running Scribus 1.6.1 under Ubuntu 24.04.2

Screenshot_20250429_210600.png

Any advice? Thanks!
#3
Beginner Talk / Re: long book
Last post by a.l.e - April 27, 2025, 04:22:31 PM
hi

i did a quick search for "scribus sections youtube" and the first result is:


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#4
Beginner Talk / Re: long book
Last post by mire50 - April 27, 2025, 10:59:29 AM
Thanks for your your prompt reply.
I have already watched a lot of tutorials and tried Scribus with small and large documents.
Upon your suggestion I am going to download a 1.6 version but there are many! Which one would you advise me to use?
If it doesn't work, can you tell me where I can find info about the creation of sections? Thanks
#5
Beginner Talk / Re: long book
Last post by a.l.e - April 27, 2025, 09:21:57 AM
1. You should probably use Scribus 1.6, not 1.5. If read the internet correctly, Sequoia should support it.
2. Traditionally, it was advised not to create documents with more than 100 pages (and it was mostly already way too much). But, currently, multiple users with modern hardware report that they managed to create documents with around slightly more than 300 pages, so it should be ok now.
3. If you don't configure sections to interfere with the page numbering, you don't have to bother about them when inserting page number or creating a table of contents.
But, concerning the table of contents, you will not get something really usable, if you're sticking with the current stable version (the next version will have a much improved table of contents! Promised!): so you will probably want to create it manually anyway (or use this script: https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository/tree/master/table_of_contents).

All in all, I suggest you to try out the features you want to use before starting the creation of a 300 pages document and learn how to use Scribus with smaller documents.
There are numerous Youtube and text based tutorials you can use.
And if specific questions arise, you are welcome to ask them in here!
#6
Beginner Talk / long book
Last post by mire50 - April 27, 2025, 09:06:45 AM
I work on Mac Sequoia and have downloaded Scribus 1.5.8. I am currently working on a (roughly) 350 page book with lots of images. The book is more or less ready on LibreOffice but I have important questions before starting the final version on Scribus.
I have read here and there that Scribus does not like long documents heavy with images and that it would be wiser to break the book into sections and join the pdfs later.
1. How about long documents with many images on Scribus?
2. How to create sections on Scribus?
3. What about page numbers? I know how to insert page numbers but, if my first section goes (for example) from page 1 to 44, how do I start the first page of the next section on 45?
4. How about creating a table of contents if the book is divided on sections?
Thanks for your answers
#7
Text and Typography / Re: Left justified paragraph i...
Last post by AdmFubar - April 27, 2025, 08:30:31 AM
the only thing close to this is tabulators. but they dont have the weird editing issue that you are experiencing.

in this text your are using it is imported from a file? or typed in directly? can we see this text? would like to analyze it.

What os and version re you using? and what version of scribus?
#8
Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by a.l.e - April 26, 2025, 12:48:16 PM
Let's try to get a few things straight:

  • Scribus has the concept of document unit, which the user can choose and change at will.
  • The document unit is used for showing "length" measurements to the user (afaik, behind the scenes, Scribus uses one single unit for all measurements; probably points)
  • Scribus has measurements which are shown in pt instead of the document unit
  • Everywhere you you can type a measurement, you can type any unit and Scribus will convert the value into the unit its currently using for that specific field

The fundamental questions behind this thread are:

  • Which values should be in the document unit and which one in pt?
  • Should there be other units that are "exceptions" for some measurements ("everything in mm, but height, because in canada we use inches for height" ... well, at least for how tall are people and how much snow is lying around...)?
  • Should the user be able to pick the unit in use for specific fields?

As you might already know, I'm for software that behaves well and I prefer to keep the customization options to a minimum.
Of course, sometimes, different workflows have different needs and we should make the work as easy as possible (you might have guessed: having dozen of settings is probably not "as easy as possible").

Let's create a basis, for better judging what can be done to improve the current situation.

Here is a list of fields that are not shown in the document unit but in pt:

  • font size
  • line height
  • space above and below a paragraph
  • baseline grid spacing and offset

You're welcome to complete the list.

Other units used by Scribus are:

  • degrees (for the rotation: should we have radiants, too?)
  • percentage (some like the opacity do not really have an alternative, but others like the offset to the baseline could also be defined in other units)
  • number of chars (shortest word to hyphenate: why not in mm?)
  • number of lines (orphans and widows: the feature does not work, but it would not be wrong to define it in mm)
  • minutes (interval for saving)
  • pixels (grab radius and snap distance)
  • dpi (minimum resolution of images)

Personally, after having had quick tour of Scribus for compiling the list above, I would suggest two actions:

  • use pt for the stroke (as already suggested above)
  • use the document unit for the baseline offset

On the other side, I still don't see the need for letting the user configure which unit is to be used where (since for the cases when other units are needed, one can let Scribus do the conversion for the specific case)
#9
Beginner Talk / Re: How to change line size to...
Last post by Nermander - April 25, 2025, 09:45:21 PM
Aren't points just 1/72 inch? Then to get 2 pt width you could just write "2/72in" (sure, it gets converted, but at least you can enter points).
#10
Text and Typography / Re: Left justified paragraph i...
Last post by a.l.e - April 25, 2025, 09:38:04 PM
Negativ nein.

Never heard of that...

Can you share a sample .sla file where that happens?