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Title: Different text alignment properties
Post by: winxi on March 30, 2024, 06:25:32 PM
Hi, can somebody tell me the difference between "Align Text Left/Right" and "Left/Right to right/left paragraph" under Text Properties in Scribus 1.6.1?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Different text alignment properties
Post by: AdmFubar on March 30, 2024, 09:28:27 PM
from the help file;

Right-to-Left Capability
A fantastic and long-awaited capability is found in the two buttons to the left of the justification set. On the left is Left to Right direction of character placement, as in most Latin languages, and adjacent to it, Right to Left direction for languages using that arrangement, such as Arabic or Hebrew, among others. What you will see is that what happens is language-specific. For languages that use them, ligatures will also be applied.
At this point it should be mentioned that when you are in Select Item mode, any changes will apply to the entire frame contents. In Edit Contents mode, things are a bit more complex.