[scribus] Line Wrapping Bug

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Fri Jul 29 06:34:21 UTC 2011


On 7/29/11 4:37 AM, Mike Sleger wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 
>> 2011/7/28 Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at q.com>
>>
>>> Dang, except now with it aligned to baseline grid the text frame cannot be
>>> repositioned on the page.  Well, the frame can be moved, but the text
>>> doesn't move with the frame anymore.  There must be a way to align different
>>> sized text in a frame to baseline, but still have the text move with the
>>> frame?
>>>
>>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Mike Sleger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nevermind - I figured it out.  Line spacing cannot be Fixed or Automatic
>>> - it needs to be Baseline in order the larger text to remain on the same
>>> line as the smaller text.
>>>
>>
>> Hmmmm.... I see no reason why we should need to set the linespacing to
>> "Align to Baseline Grid" to achieve this. A "Fixed linespacing" should do it
>> just the same as the Align to Baseline Grid.
>>
>> Quick testings reveal that as soon as there is a difference of over 3,24
>> points between a word and the following one, the following one is pushed on
>> the next line. Setting at smaller type has the same effect.
>>
>> If this is not a bug, I wonder what else could it be. To the least, it's an
>> annoying limitation.
>>
>> Louis
> 
> Correct, I'm going to file a bug report.  

No need to.. its a known issue with the old text system. I believe a fix
will come as a part of #9932 etc that will come when Cezary is back from
holidays.

Craig



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