[Scribus] Fill Characters?

[Steve Jacobs]

Petr Van?k wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 of April 2005 07:57, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> 
>>This<I/S>That
>>Something<I/S>Else
>>
>>generated
>>
>>This            That
>>Something       Else
>>
>>Insert Leader did the same thing, but using dots instead of white space.
>>
>>It seems to me this would be fairly easy to script, if there is a Python
>>function which will return the amount of unsed space remaining in a
>>line. Is there such a thing?
> 
> 
> unfortunately there is no function for it. Craig R. have tested some font 
> metrics via Python but with very small luck (=no luck imho;))
> 
> I use small workaround - set forced formating on the text frame. Text is 
> formated then:
> this that                      something
> there is unbreakable space between 'this' and 'that'.
> 

How to you insert the unbreakable space?

Thanks,

Steve

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Steve Jacobs
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