[scribus] Scribus 1.5.3 on Debian with Python 3

[ZASKE Martin]

On 28.10.2017 18:42, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> I wonder if you have tried to use FontForge to create a narrow
> non-breaking space in whatever font you would like.
> 
> It looks easy enough to do, after doing some research as to the proper
> width. What I have yet to figure out is whether Unicode 202F
> automatically indicates it's non-breaking, or whether this is a setting
> somewhere in FontForge.

Normally we use an ugly work-around, borrowing an existing narrow
non-breaking space from another font.

Luckily Scribus is now very relaxed, even when we change fonts in the
middle of a paragraph. I believe that using styles and the latest
Scribus has made many things more stable. In the past it feels we had
more unexpected behaviour with manual edits. Or maybe I was just less
experienced.

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For the record:

I have only hacked about three fonts in my career. It was fun for me and
I learned things, but I know far too little to get it right. I messed
with two open fonts with SIL or some licence which allowed it. And one
commercial font with permission of the seller, where our language needed
more glyphs.

The problem is that we are not an island, but part of an NGO with many
more projects. Hacking a font is creating one solution and three new
problems elsewhere (naming and licensing, availability, portability of
documents, maintenance of documents or projects, etc.) So such solutions
apply only to very limited local projects.

I have played with TypeTool3 and FontForge. FontForge is very powerful
but for the above reasons, I do not even take time to learn such
grey-area crafts as hacking fonts.

Talking to font-makers has proven very helpful once or twice. If you
convince them of the need/usefulness for/of a certain glyph, they put
that on some wish-list and might include it in a future version.


but you are right too, trying things and tweaking or hacking is like
further-training, just more fun,

Martin



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