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#21
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 09:34:47 PM
Gnome49+ is Wayland only now. But from what I read XWayland is an automatic translator - I dont think I can choose it?
#22
General Discussion / Re: Insert Pages... causes all...
Last post by a.l.e - February 22, 2026, 12:54:31 PM
As far as I know, Wayland is still not really supported.

Some things work, others don't.

If I recall correctly, you need to start Scribus with XWayland...
#23
General Discussion / Insert Pages... causes all pag...
Last post by Riquez - February 22, 2026, 11:04:25 AM
When I choose PAGE > Insert.. to add pages to my document (in any configuration, eg: 1 page at end)
The entire work area goes black & no pages are visible.

I can see the new pages in the Arrange Pages tab, but I cant click on them & see the pages. All pages are vanished from main view. No work is possible.
I can save the document, close the app, re-open & the new pages will be there.

Ive tested this on .appImage 1.7.2 & my distros package install 1.6.5

System info:
Scribus version: 1.6.5 & 1.7.2
Distro: Manjaro 26 Gnome 49 (arch based)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500U
GPU: Radeon Graphics
Display: Wayland

#24
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by rvodden - February 21, 2026, 08:37:54 PM
That was exactly it @utnik - when I changed the font size of the dropcap style to be the same as the font size of the rest of the text it worked perfectly. Thanks!
#25
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by utnik - February 20, 2026, 08:49:51 PM
hi rvodden

try to reduce the font size of the style for the drop caps to something below the value of the baseline grid.

utnik
#26
Beginner Talk / Re: Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by AdmFubar - February 20, 2026, 08:13:54 PM
Looks like an issue with the font. I noticed that you are using different fonts in your examples. Try a different one for the problematic drop cap and see if that clears it up.
#27
Beginner Talk / [SOLVED] Single Line Drop Caps
Last post by rvodden - February 20, 2026, 05:51:27 PM
I'm having a strange problem with DropCaps. I have a 2 line dropcap selected, and the drop cap has appeared 3 lines deep with only a single line following it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cj9ZPhGygOEC_ZD_kKtwJCuRaTQjqiT5

In other places it works fine though:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xuTT1fQSm81CfSbT9SUu65L2JiDk-fcB

Does anyone have any idea what is going?
#29
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Utility script for book ty...
Last post by Lynn - February 17, 2026, 10:59:51 PM
Oh, honestly, I hadn't imagined Scribus would implement any of this natively; at least certainly not any time soon. For one thing, typesetting norms vary by language/region/medium and I have no idea whether these rules are applicable outside english-language book typesetting. I don't get the impression many people use Scribus for books, though I think it can work very well for it.

Out of the list, the only one I think is likely universal is preventing the last word of a paragraph from being automatically hyphenated. Perhaps it'd be possible to have a "don't hyphenate within X lines of the end of a paragraph"? Both Affinity and InDesign have toggles for this in their hyphenation settings.

But I know there's certainly bigger Scribus priorities, hence writing a script to automate that task in my projects. (I would definitely rank these fiddly bits way below style-based running headers.)

The initial reason I wrote my script to work with the XML instead of within Scribus directly is that I didn't see a method in the API to edit text that isn't visible on a page in Scribus. When doing book projects, I add pages in chunks as I finalize the text and unlink the text chain at each chapter break. That prevents ever having a really long text chain visible on-screen, and reduces lag when doing 200+ page projects. If I could only edit visible pages, I would have to remember to run the script four or six times per project rather than all at once at the beginning.
#30
Scripts and Plugins / Re: Utility script for book ty...
Last post by a.l.e - February 17, 2026, 08:01:17 PM
Very interesting summary.

Personally, I have a hard time believing that Scribus will be able to add all or even any of the rules you mention.

The main hurdle I see: adding an algorithm that is somehow performant and that will manage to never produce a really bad result. In one pass.

... And this with the limited number of contributors currently active in Scribus...

But, what I think might be possible, is to get Scribus to give information about the possible and enhancing the scripter API to allow a more or less automatic enhancement of the text flow through Python scripts.
A bit like what you are doing with your script, but with interactions with the document's frames and not by tweaking the XML in the .sla.

What do you think about it?