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#51
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by a.l.e - September 21, 2025, 11:27:40 AM
One of the words that came to mind is

asymptomatisch.png

The long first syllable might be a sign that German does not want that a all alone at the end of a line...

But there might be other rules that come into play here.

In Italian it is

a-sin-to-ma-ti-co

but i still don't think that this is something one would want to have:

La malattia ebbe un decorso a-
sintomatico e il paziente non
...
#52
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by utnik - September 21, 2025, 09:46:53 AM
Quote from: a.l.e on September 20, 2025, 10:32:46 AM...utnik might know more about the German rules : - )

german hyphenation rules are not that complicated. (afaik there are no punctuation related rules...)
a bit a special case is the letter 'ß'. originally it was a ligature of 's' and 'z'. but now while it is used in germany, in swiss german it is replaced by 'ss' (i. e. 'straße' in de-de and 'strasse' in de-ch) and the hyphenation is 'stra-ße' and 'stras-se' (in capital letters there was traditionally no 'ß' and the hyphenation was 'STRAS-SE' like in de-ch. since a couple of years there is a capital 'ß' and the two variants are correct – but not 'STRA-SSE'...)
i don't know if there is a 'ß' in austria.

utnik
#53
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by MrB - September 20, 2025, 10:47:23 AM
No, as they will still be open, the current positions would stay the same.
#54
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by a.l.e - September 20, 2025, 10:32:46 AM
I've made a web search for "Czech hyphenation" and the best hits where "papers" for Latex.

But from what I could get by skimming through them is rather that the Czech hyphenation patterns are complex.

I could not find any mention of special rules being taken into account for a minimal number of characters to be kept on the current line or moved to the next one.

This having been said, it should not be hard to define rules for the hyphenation, as there are for widows and orphans (with a checkbox for taking into account the punctuation).

And I can think that the rule not to leave a single letter at the end of the line is something that you would want in many languages.
Probably, the same is valid for having less than two non-blanks at the start of the line.

utnik might know more about the German rules : - )

But, since Scribus widows and orphans control does not really work, I would not give you too many hopes that this will be implemented soon.
Nonetheless, at the end of this thread, it might be a good idea to open a ticket in the bug tracker with the findings and make a proposal for changes in Scribus.
#55
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 19, 2025, 07:57:23 PM
have you looked into 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispell

and its successor,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Aspell

these might offer a solution.
#56
General Discussion / Re: Hyphenation and rules for ...
Last post by prcek - September 19, 2025, 05:30:05 PM
Quote from: AdmFubar on September 18, 2025, 06:48:49 PMLibreOffice does offer a Czech dictionary with hyphenation.
see, https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/czech-dictionaries

I'm aware of this hyphenation dictionary and I believe I'm using it. Hyphenation works.

My question was for a rule that is not covered by dictionary directly. I wouldn't call it a corner case although I believe it is rather difficult to implement.

Quote from: a.l.e on September 18, 2025, 03:33:26 PMDo other languages share the same rules?

I have no idea. (Does anyone else?) And to be fair I've noticed this rule is often broken in Czech texts.

Quote from: a.l.e on September 18, 2025, 03:33:26 PMDoes any other free (or not free?) software offer better options?
LibreOffice?

No (tested)

Quote from: a.l.e on September 18, 2025, 03:33:26 PMLatex?

Don't know have to play with it a bit, (re)gain some knowledge to test it.
#57
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by a.l.e - September 19, 2025, 07:55:15 AM
@MrB does the "Default" button also reset the position of the windows and palettes?
#58
Features / Re: Decimals and time in Scrib...
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 11:44:21 PM
In preferences/document setup/general tab is the language set to german?
#59
Installation and Setup / Re: Scribus not responding
Last post by AdmFubar - September 18, 2025, 11:39:59 PM
Quote from: a.l.e on September 18, 2025, 08:01:22 PMI gave it a try: on my machine it takes about a second to get there.

The whole start takes slightly more than two seconds on my machine.

For Scribus, pressing a key doing start does not seem to be a good solution.
(Users would have a hard time to press the key before Scribus has already started to read the prefs)

I never said anything about button, just an option. ;)

Now i'm wondering if any update recent updates from m$ may have adjusted some security features. and if scribus wasnt installed via windows "app" store it isnt considering it trusted code and wont let it access any files.
#60
Features / Decimals and time in Scribus
Last post by Flaxx - September 18, 2025, 10:43:22 PM
Hi there,

Compared to any office writer app (like in LibreOffice) the handling of numbers is different in Scribus as it neither knows a time notation, nor the usual decimal depiction in German.
I would expect a picture like this in German (first column) and English (the second one), both compared to Scribus:   
    DE           EN      Scribus 1.6.4
     9            9            9
     5,034        5.034        5,034
 1.201,66     1,201,66     1,201.66
     9:15         9:15      9:15
In English only the time depiction is ignored. An improvement would be on my wish list.