[Scribus] word wrap error

[Gregory Pittman]

Craig Bradney wrote:

>Try a search and replace before or after your import for "  " with " ". 
>Whether or not there is an issue on wrapping, you dont want them in the 
>middle of your lines either.
>  
>
I've thought about this, but if that's the recommendation, then really 
everyone should do this on every text file, in which case maybe it 
should be a built-in process on text frame import.  One problem with 
double spaces is that they're hard to see, especially with a 
proportional font, and a spellcheck won't pick them up either.
I also have a hard time understanding when would be the situation that 
one would *want* a double space divided in the middle.  In the middle of 
a line, it would not be as distracting as on the front end, and an extra 
space at the end of a left-justified text line is invisible.

A final thought: fully-justified text should have a space at the end of 
a line or the beginning of the next, if it works analogously to the 
left-justified algorithm as it exists.  Now I presume it doesn't, so 
you're saying that for fully-justified text, it is logical for Scribus 
not to display that space, yet it is also logical with left-justified 
text for Scribus to display a double space and split it in the middle at 
the end of a line.

At the moment I don't anticipate sending work to a printer, but I can 
imagine someone gnashing their teeth after getting a large print job 
back and finding a space inadvertently at the beginning of a line 
somewhere.  Not the end of the world, but you can't help but think it 
reflects on the quality of your work to have something like that happen.

TPFKAG