[Scribus] Examples

[Peter Linnell]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 08:10, John Culleton wrote:

> > Tom
> 
> The one-page example (not yet a tutorial bcause it doesn't show how to 
> do it) has a deficiency that may be inherent in Scribus. The text is 
> set in narrow columns and is unhyphenated. Hence there are big gaps 
> between words in some lines.  Does Scribus do hyphenation?  If so does 
> it hyphenate line by line or view the whole paragraph like TeX or 
> InDesign?  

Scribus does hyphenation and quite well in IMO. There are several
languages supported besides English. The code is similar to the code in
Open Office, which is based on the code from Latex. 

A simple example:
http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/pdfs/templateex.pdf

Details: http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/hyphenator.html

Hope that helps,
Peter