[Scribus] Shortwords

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Wed Apr 25 14:52:50 CEST 2007


Owen Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:51:59AM -0400, Helge Hielscher wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:32:18 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
>>     
>>> You may be aware of the fact that Scribus 1.3.4 will be released soon.
>>> Therefore, I avail myself to the opportunity of publicly asking your
>>> support. One of the notable features of Scribus is the short words plugin.
>>> It prevents un desired line breaks after or before certain abbreviations,
>>> e.g. Dr. or m.
>>>       
>> Isn?t that what U+00A0 and U+202F are for?
>>     
>
>
> Which is easier, to write your words and let the plug-in insert the non 
> breaking spaces, or to write your words and manually insert the non breaking 
> spaces?
>   
When you are working with a very large document, manually inserting
nonbreaking spaces becomes a massive task.

Greg



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