[Scribus] Enhancing Short Words

Le Tigre scribus
Fri Feb 17 12:21:54 CET 2006


Louis Desjardins a ?crit :
>> > > I used Short Words with delight over the week-end. The feature simply
>>
>>> > *works* well and is very easy to fine tune.
>>> >
>>> > I have 2 questions :
>>> >
>>> > 1. What is the most efficient way of submitting additionnal cases for a
>>> > specific language? I am thinking here about punctuation signs for
>>> > French, including opening and closing quotes ? ?, "high" punctuation
>>> > signs like "? ! : ;" among other things.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry my last email was if you were to amend the source and do a make
>>>
>>> You can just amend $PREFIX/share/scribus/plugins/scribus-short-words.rc to
>>> try it out
>>
>>There is "Preferences->Short Words" dialog for custom configuration.
>>It will copy these changes somewhere into ~/.scribus/ to keep the "stable"
>>system
>>wide rc file untouched.
>>Feel free to posting the changes into bugtracker. I'll update the distro rc
>>file for
>>next releases
> 
> 
> Great! Thanks! Will do.
> 
> Louis
> 
> 
>>petr
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Louis (and all french-talkers)
I've explained how we did for that lack of thin spaces.
Here: http://www.linuxgraphic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=7197#7197

In 2 words: we changed the font with fontforge in order to give some 
more kerning.

What do you think of that solution?

Raphael



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