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#41
Text and Typography / Re: Dotted spaces inside text
Last post by a.l.e - August 29, 2025, 10:10:46 AM
Well, you can use a... dotted line : - )

dotted-line.gif


But I don't really understand your issue:

dots-dots.gif

Scribus seems to keep the dots together...
#42
General Discussion / Re: Establecer el comienzo de ...
Last post by a.l.e - August 29, 2025, 09:54:29 AM
In Scribus, there is no setting for showing the page number on one or more pages.

What you normally will do, is putting the page number "symbol" (Insert > Character > Page number) in a text frame on a master page.

If you create multiple master pages, you can apply the ones with a page number only to the pages where you want one to show up.

Once this is done, you can also control which number is on a specific page.
For this, you need to define sections in "File > Document Setup" and set the "Start" field to the first page number in that section (if it's not just the "number of the page", of course!).
#43
General Discussion / Establecer el comienzo de la n...
Last post by Emilio - August 29, 2025, 12:36:45 AM
Buenas noches.
Antes pido disculpas porque no sabría dónde publicar esta consulta. ¿Cómo se podría establecer en Scribus dónde, en qué página, comenzar la numeración de páginas? Gracias.
#44
Text and Typography / Dotted spaces inside text
Last post by tombenko - August 28, 2025, 11:27:40 PM
Hello!
I would like to insert dotted line between words in a text with defined length, similar to a fill-out form. I tried to use tabs, but that didn't do what I wated to do, because all lines needed to be different sizes, and therefore some of them broke to the next line, what made the needed length fail.

Ie.:
...., who is the student of ...., proven that he/she is .... in ......
Those dots would be the dotted lines I meant.
#45
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 28, 2025, 08:50:18 PM
As far as I know, languages that have composed glyphs use specific software to enter (type) them.

That software is between the keyboard and the app you're using (something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fcitx).

No idea if any of these are usable for old Malayalam and Scribus.

I'm trying to see, if I can create a script that lets you define snippets that you can then easily insert into a Scribus document.
#46
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by mgrajesh - August 28, 2025, 06:33:09 AM
sorry for confusing !

the 'ററ' was an example to show you how old lipi was rendered. Never used libreoffice. But i use that drag in to panel for quick usage was very helpful for frequesnt use for example the letter'ർ' is used in most case in old lipi it merely use "  ൎ  ". for exapmple when typing നിർത്തി .. old lipi use only നിൎത്തി. that symbol never cant typed. Only way is we have to manually enter via glyph panel .


what i am saying is when glyph doesn't show full character list, it will make our job slow. ( you can see that big list at the bottom  when you using font forge .   any way it may be the issues with the font , that characters are not appear in glyph box..  any way thank you so much
#48
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 27, 2025, 05:36:16 PM
You never clearly stated that Scribus can render the old chars.
And this is one of the reasons why I asked you to paste the character as text!

The second reason is that now, I can play around with those chars and see what one can do.

One of the first things I've found out, is that the glyphs in the Scribus "Insert Glyph" and in the Libreoffice are similar but not the same:

insert-glyph-scribus-lo.png

  • Libreoffice did recognize that the font has a Malayalam code block, Scribus does not.
  • I was intrigued by those dotted circles in Libreoffice...
  • I was also under the impression that Scribus did not list all the glyphs Libreoffice was showing.

I've pasted your glyphs into a Scribus and Libreoffice document and now I know that both are able to show the old glyph with the given font.

Thanks to an internet search, I've found out that Libreoffice can show the unicode code of a character by pressing alt-x. I did that.

Now I know that in Scribus you actually can use "Insert Glyph" to insert റ്റ:
You "simply" need to type 0d31↵0d4d↵0d31 in "Insert Code" field and then push the "Insert" button.
A solution that old time Windows users will love.
But not me.

By the way: since, I could not find how to get the code points in Scribus, now there is a Script for doing it:

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository/blob/master/glyph_code/glyph_code.py

For the rest of my report , I will cheat a bit and tell you what I've found out, in a different order than how things happened.

Looking at the glyphs table in Libreoffice, there are a few dotted circles that stick out:

compose-decoration.png

What if the circles signify that one can compose the character?

insert-from-glyph-table.gif

Since I have no clue how the Malayalam glyphs work, there was only one way for me to find out the sequence: look at the codes composing the glyph : - )
(And playing around with them a bit...)

You can even drop the glyphs into the list of preferred glyphs and insert them from there:

insert-from-glyph-preferred.gif

Voilà, relief you from some of your suffering...

Finally, I want to get back to the Screenshot of the two "Insert Glyphs" in Window: We need to talk, if it really makes sense that Scribus tries to show all possible combined glyphs or if -- like Libreoffice does -- it should simply better show which are the glyphs that are supposed to be combined.
Once it's clearer what should be improved, we will need to open a ticket in the bug tracker.
#49
PDF Generation / Re: Problem with text color us...
Last post by a.l.e - August 27, 2025, 04:25:24 PM
Thanks for the ticket.

We will see if jghali will have something to say about that...
#50
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by mgrajesh - August 27, 2025, 05:26:37 AM
no its not hard. :D  but i think you thought i getting hard in rendering the type in scribus. But its not my issue. If i typed exactly what it is, scribus render it correctly. But it doesn't happen always. I use OCR to make mage to text. In such case all characters doesn't read. in such case i have to type it manually

for example when it type റ്റ , in old lipi its typed as ററ..

and in modern lipi സുസ്മേരം type like this but in old lipi its rederd like this
https://postimg.cc/svNXh6s7

the issue is if the glyph is showing all the characters i could easily add it instantly .. there are many such characters which moderns fonts doesnt use.

if its showing in glyph it will save hours .. hope now you understand the issue.  ;)