[scribus] Align Text Justified Failing at Bottom of Frame

[Matt Miller]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022, at 06:53, Matt Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 23:32, Andreas Mair wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> looking at your screenshot, left page. I'd say the lines at the bottom are
>> not "in line", just look at the space below the last lines.  
>> I'd suggest to use "Align to Baseline Grid" (you use "fixed linespacing").
>> If you use it, the last line of a column will not move too near to text
>> textbox bottom border.
>
> Thanks, I'll look at that again. I did try that earlier, but the 
> results were terrible, with massive amounts of vertical spacing. I'll 
> see if I can adjust that.

This seems to have fixed it. In all my templates under "Document Setup | Guides" I set the baseline grid spacing to 1pt, then in the paragraph style I set the linespacing to "Align to Baseline Grid." Overall the new document appearance is the same, except that the bottom lines of text frames stay a bit further away from the bottom. I don't see any occurrences of the bottom line not justifying.

Thanks to everyone for your input.

>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>> Am So., 13. März 2022 um 04:24 Uhr schrieb Matt Miller <
>> matt.miller at fastmail.com>:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 16:34, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>> > On 3/12/22 18:22, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>>> >> On 3/12/22 17:26, Matt Miller wrote:
>>> >>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022, at 01:49, Andreas Mair wrote:
>>> >>>> Hi,
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> here it looks ok, too. But I don't have that font.
>>> >>>> Maybe you can provide a screenshot?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I intended to include the font in the zip file when I did "Collect for
>>> Output." I guess it still requires a manual font install. Anyway, here's a
>>> screenshot of pages 4 and 5:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/La_test_4-5.png
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Notice the problem at the bottom of the second column of the left-hand
>>> page, and at the bottom of the first column of the right-hand page.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> What you're demonstrating is the problem of using full justification
>>> for narrow columns, and where multi-syllabic words are likely. This is not
>>> a Scribus problem.
>>>
>>> Well, I agree that with narrow columns and less-than-aggressive
>>> hyphenation the final appearance of the text might not be the best, but, I
>>> would expect a lot of space between the words (along with a bit of glyph
>>> stretching), if that's what's needed to justify. In some places in my
>>> documents I do see lines with only three or even two words on them and a
>>> ton of space in between the words. That's fine. My understanding is that I
>>> can allow more hyphenation if I want to reduce that.
>>>
>>> I think there is a Scribus bug in some cases, though. I altered my
>>> original test so that nothing but two-letter words are on the last line at
>>> the bottom of the column in question and on the first line of the next
>>> column. Still the last line of the column is not justified. Here's the new
>>> test case and the new screen shot. The bottom of the second column on the
>>> left page is the problem:
>>>
>>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/Not-Fully-Justified-2.zip
>>>
>>> https://test.biblestudy.tools/tmp/La_test2_4-5.png
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I would add that the answer to this is to vary the space between
>>> > letters or the width of spaces to squeeze the text as needed.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Okay, I can try that in my Python script, as I try to work around this
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> > Greg
>>> >
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