Hi, [...] > > Some examples: > Some short words like avant, comme, guerre, cannot by hyphenated > at all. Words like nation, situation, lib?ration (ending -tion) > are hyphenated before the last two characters (-ti-on), which is > wrong. Many verbs in the third person plural end like -ient, -aient > etc but a hyphen is wrongly placed into that last syllable. > > I've finished the book by inserting many soft-hyphens with ctrl- > shift-"-" and also filling the exceptions list. But this solution > is very fragile. If any small change should be made in the text > or the layout, many hyphens and line endings have to be checked > again. > > Is this really a problem of scribus or am I doing something > basically wrong? > I thought I experienced the same problem but I cannot reproduce it now with scribus 1.4.0 on debian wheezy/testing. None of the words you experienced problems with are hypenated wrong. If you can give me an example docuemnt to try I would be happy to contribute.
Cheers, K.
