Solution for Scribus Hyphenation Issues (Lubuntu 24.04)

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mpalma61

Hi everyone, 
 I also had issues with hyphenation in Scribus documents. I spent hours searching for fixes to Scribus' 'problem', only to discover it's not a software bug—it's about language settings at both the system level and within Scribus styles. 
   
 My setup: Lubuntu 24.04 (Spanish-Argentina locale). 
   
 Steps that worked for me: 
 1. System Language: Verified that my system dictionaries were incomplete. Installed the full Spanish-Argentina dictionaries via Lubuntu's language settings. 
 2. Scribus Preferences: In Scribus, went to File  Preferences  Language Handling → Set default language to Spanish-Argentina. 
 3. Text Styles: Opened the Style Editor (Edit  Styles) → Assigned Spanish-Argentina to every text style used in the document. 
 4. Apply & Close: Clicked Apply  OK, closed the Style Editor, then selected all text (Ctrl+A). 
   
Result: Hyphenation worked instantly across all paragraphs!
Scribus requires consistent language settings in both Preferences AND individual text styles. Hope this saves others the headache!

a.l.e

mmm...

setting the language in the text style should be enough (on top of installing the required "dictionaries", of course!).

... using the style editor, is not necessary (nor useful) for hyphenating the text.

anyway, i thought that this topic is rather a simple one, and tried to get a small manual put together and summarize some of the knowledge about languages in scribus:


it's a draft, but should already contain a few good advices.

you can contribute to it by commenting in this thread or by adding tickets and pull request to

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-manual-language/

on top of it, i have lot of started manuels that finally deserve to be put in a state that can be published, at least as a draft.

soon, i plan to to upload   an incomplete draft of a more general introduction to scribus, with some more information on how other people can start contributing to it.