>Petr Vanek a ?crit : > >>>>I used Short Words with delight over the week-end. The feature simply >>>>*works* well and is very easy to fine tune. >>>> >>>>I have 2 questions : >>>> >>>>1. What is the most efficient way of submitting additionnal cases for a >>>>specific language? I am thinking here about punctuation signs for >>>>French, including opening and closing quotes ? ?, "high" punctuation >>>>signs like "? ! : ;" among other things. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Sorry my last email was if you were to amend the source and do a make >>> >>>You can just amend $PREFIX/share/scribus/plugins/scribus-short-words.rc to >>>try it out >>> >>> >> >>There is "Preferences->Short Words" dialog for custom configuration. >>It will copy these changes somewhere into ~/.scribus/ to keep the "stable" >>system >>wide rc file untouched. >>Feel free to posting the changes into bugtracker. I'll update the distro rc >>file for >>next releases >> >>petr >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Scribus mailing list >><mailto:Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de>Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >><http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus>http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> >- Yes, it works better - I think that the scribus-short-words.rc >file is for 1.2 - because it didn't change anything. > >- For French, you should add: ;, !, ?, (ie space before ; before ! >and before ?) > >- Problem: a copy/paste of a text with non-breaking spaces from >Openoffice make a unrecognized character. Would it be possible to >have a normal space, that Short-Words would transform in >non-breaking one? > >- Louis' question is for my very important: is it possible to get a >thin space? Because if not, we remain at the same problem: when text >is justified, non-breaking spaces become as big as the other spaces, >and need to be reduced one by one with the kerning. >That's the major problem that we have, and it's the reason why we >prefered renouncing using non-breaking spaces. >So if anybody has suggestions about that: using non-breaking thin spaces...
This feature has been on the "todo list" for a long time. See bug number! http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=131 I've just added a note so we could raise the priority level as it is a necessity in french typography. Short Words (Espaces ins?cables) is in the good direction imo. Louis > >Thanks > >Raphael > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060214/8643c106/attachment.html
