I am not sure to understand correctla your description,
But I think they might be another way to get the result you need. You could use a TAB to
position your first word of each verse. You might then need two (or 3) tabs positions
depending of the number of digits of the verse number. It might be easier than inserting
two thin spaces everywhere.
As for the tabs position, you set them in the style, where you can adjust it very
precisely to your convenience.
In any case, it would be relatively easy to insert your special characters (tabs or thin
spaces) using a regex search and replace on the source file (with a text editing tool), or
to write a script to do it.
Sincerely
Silvain
Le 14.02.21 à 23:52, Matt Miller a écrit :
My text alignment is "Align Text Justified" but there are some places where I'd like two
particular adjacent words to stay exactly one space-width apart, while the rest of the text in that
paragraph is justified. So far the only workaround I've found is to select the two words and set
"Manual Tracking" to whatever negative percent value looks good. I have many places
where I'd like this effect, and manual tweaking is a lot of work. The negative percent I need is
different in each case depending on how justification has changed the word spacing of that
particular line, so I'm not seeing how to script this.
I think it would be ideal if there were some character that printed as a space
but was not considered a word delimiter by the justification algorithm. I'm
open to using any Unicode character out there. In all cases where I need this
effect the two words in question would be the first two words of the Scribus
paragraph.
My document is the Bible in traditional two-column pages, where each verse
(except the first verse of a chapter) has the verse number as its first word.
If that verse is also considered by the Bible to be the start of a new
paragraph (which is not a Scribus paragraph since Scribus sees each verse as a
distinct paragraph) then the second word of that verse is the pilcrow
character, and in that case I want the pilcrow to not float out into the rest
of the justified line. Instead I want the pilcrow to always be one space width
away from the verse number.
Thanks.
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