On 10/28/2017 06:25 AM, JLuc wrote: > Le 27/10/2017 ? 20:42, ZASKE Martin a ?crit?: > >> I have a few non-Scribus Python scripts to transmogrify certain texts >> that we need to get in and out of certain tools a lot. >> And I made a special colouring scheme for my preferred power editor, to >> visually check typography, before(!) we put long texts into Scribus. > > I dont see precisely what you mean here. > Can you elaborate on this : how do you create and use colors ? > >> Another reason is that for proper French-style typography, we need >> glyphs "espace fine ins?cable" U+202F and "espace insecable" U+00A0 but >> we have got only very few fonts which carry the alphabet for our African >> language (Anii) and not all of them carry U+202F, so with our >> publications we often have to hack it... >> So for our language we want to follow the French model, but have not >> made a script yet. We apply the spaces (even borrow from comparable >> fonts) but then we hand-tweak in Scribus at least the major headings. >
I wonder if you have tried to use FontForge to create a narrow non-breaking space in whatever font you would like. It looks easy enough to do, after doing some research as to the proper width. What I have yet to figure out is whether Unicode 202F automatically indicates it's non-breaking, or whether this is a setting somewhere in FontForge. One disappointment was fontmatrix, where I was unable to find which fonts have U202F and which don't. I did find a webpage: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202f/fontsupport.htm and in Scribus you can just insert it (Ctrl+Shift+U, then 202f) and see what happens. Greg
