On 05/16/2017 02:43 PM, ZASKE Martin wrote: > On 16.05.2017 14:31, Gregory Pittman wrote: >> On 05/16/2017 08:47 AM, ZASKE Martin wrote: >>> Dear list, >>> >>> me again, sorry. Getting our first full-length book ready for the >>> printers. Learning the ropes? Rather fighting with a heap of sneakily >>> self-entangling ropes... >>> >>> >>> Our book has got 200+ pages. One text-frame on each page, linked with >>> each other. >>> >>> Our main text is justified and aligned to baseline. Justification mostly >>> works fine. But in all text-frames the last line does not justify on the >>> right side, only on the left side (our text is left-to-right). In a few >>> percent of text-frames the justification of the last line looks correct, >>> but that is likely due to the fact that by chance the last word just >>> fits the line. >>> >>> I know that the last line should not justify if it happens to coincide >>> with the end of a paragraph. But in our book, most last-lines are in the >>> middle of their respective paragraphs and still they refuse to justify. >>> >>> Seems the last lines go into some Zombie-mode. Other lines I can select >>> (or place the cursor inside a line) and click the icons to play with the >>> justification: left, centred, right ... they are responding. >>> >> >> >> Hi Martin, >> >> There are 2 different full justification modes. One does not justify the >> last line, the other does. Tool tips say "Align Text Justified", the >> other "Align Text Forced Justified". The second one can lead to some >> pretty ugly layout. >> I have to say that I am puzzled to figure out how a last line can be in >> the middle of a paragraph. It seems that if it were, it wouldn't be a >> last line. >> >> Greg > > Thank you Greg for this input. I know about the two justifications. It > does not concern the problem with my document. I tried anyway: The > forced justification would justify all the lines in my test-frame (even > the ones which are the last of a paragraph; so indeed very ugly) BUT our > broken last-lines of the text-frame are still not getting justified, > even with the forced justification option. > > I had written that this will be our first full-length book. But I am > using Scribus for several years now. We have done many booklets up to 16 > pages. We have done nine magazines of 20 pages with two- and > three-column-layouts. So I have worked with chained text-frames before > (even if I am a looser at un-chaining as we found out last week). So I > can tell normal justification from broken justification. > > Still I got self-doubts, so I grabbed several novels on paper and > looked: Yep, each page gets fully justified including the very last line > - unless it happens upon the end of a paragraph. That is what we want. > > I did another test: In my troubled book-document I opened story editor > and ripped out all our text (with a bleeding heart). Then I inserted 99 > paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum, keeping the styles unchanged: > > Guess what, the justification is not just broken for our book-text, it > is now also broken with sample text. So probably not triggered by our > alphabet. > > Rather by my style-settings or by my svn-version > (scribus-1.5.3.svn-snapshot-170430-x64.exe). What would happen, if I > wanted to go back a few days, to maybe the snapshot from April 10? Could > I still open my document? > > I am using the text-frames from the menu: insert frame > text frames > > linked (as I had just learnt from Craig). > > Nobody else is seeing this "feature"? >
I can't reproduce this in English, French, or German, with either manual linking of frames or automatic from Insert > Frame. Greg
