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#1
MacOS / Is there a way to make a trian...
Last post by StainlessB - April 30, 2025, 11:46:21 PM
OSX 15, Scribus 1.6.3
As odd as this may sound, I have a need for a triangular image frame. Is there a way to do this?

thanks for any ideas!
#2
Text and Typography / Re: non-breaking space don't w...
Last post by astroboy89 - April 30, 2025, 11:29:30 PM
I have just installed scribus 1.6.4 (from repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/scribus providing unofficial builds), and it now works just fine.
Solved.
Thanks again for your replies.
#3
Text and Typography / Re: non-breaking space don't w...
Last post by astroboy89 - April 30, 2025, 10:03:42 PM
Thank you for your replies. Indeed, the red underscore is the non-breaking space, that is why I showed also the editor, but indeed, your right, I can just make the invisible characters appear. Same thing.

When I narrow down the frame, just like you showed, at some point, the word goes, together with the colon, to the next line, as expected, but if I keep narrowing it down, the word goes back up, and the colon stay on the next line. Very strange behavior to me.
I tried and attach an animated gif here, hope it works.

ezgif.com-animated-gif-maker.gif
#4
Text and Typography / Re: non-breaking space don't w...
Last post by Nermander - April 30, 2025, 08:53:37 AM
From a.l.e's screenhot it seems normal spaces are shown as a small circle and non-breaking as a dot, but the screenshots from astroboy89 shows a red underscore (which I then assume is not a non-breaking space).
#5
Text and Typography / Re: non-breaking space don't w...
Last post by a.l.e - April 29, 2025, 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.
#6
Text and Typography / [SOLVED] non-breaking space do...
Last post by astroboy89 - April 29, 2025, 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!
#7
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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#8
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
#9
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!
#10
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