![]() ![]() If you have already installed a program that uses Hunspell, like, for instance, LibreOffice, Scribus will try to detect the installed dictionaries and use them. Currently, Scribus is using Hunspell for spellchecking, and while there are quite a number of dictionaries available, for less common languages you may need to seek their dictionaries from other sources. The purpose of this dialog is not the configuration of spellchecking options per se, but the management of available dictionaries. This brings up the Resource Manager, with Spelling Dictionaries being one of the Categories to choose from. Settings for Spellchecking were formerly under Preferences, but now have moved to Windows > Resources. Spellcheckingįor spellchecking Scribus uses the Hunspell library, which is also utilized by other popular programs like LibreOffice, Firefox or InDesign. To insert a soft hyphen, you need to place the cursor in a word at the desired break position and then use Insert > Character > Soft Hyphen. ![]() “Soft hyphen” essentially tells the hyphenator: “Hyphenate here, if possible,” where “possible” means that hyphenation is not prevented by other settings, like Consecutive Hyphenations Allowed. In such a case you can insert a so-called “soft hyphen” into a word. Not every possible or reasonable hyphenation can be detected by the hyphenation algorithm. To do the latter, you have to select a hyphenated word in a text frame and then use the menu command. It is used to dehyphenate text in a selected frame, but it can also be used to dehyphenate a single word. In the Extras menu there is also the opposite feature, called Dehyphenate Text. ![]() Note that this will only hyphenate text in a selected frame. Select a text frame, adjust the text alignment to your liking and then select Extras > Hyphenate Text from the menu. Similarly, you may may not want to have 2 lines in a row hyphenated. The smallest word default setting is probably rather liberal, since few would want to hyphenate a 3-letter word. The settings to the right were formerly in Preferences, but have now moved out to a Hyphenation tab in the new Text Properties palette. Any word that has been added to this list won’t be hyphenated. To the right there is a second field called Ignore List. In the example above, the word “manuscript” has been inserted, including the desired positions for line breaks, which are specified by inserting “-” via the keyboard. Here you can add words that aren’t hyphenated correctly by the hyphenator. In the Word Lists tab of the dialog there are two fields that allow you to specify words that you want to be treated differently. Hyphenate Text Automatically During Typing: If checked, Scribus will automatically hyphenate text in every text frame that’s being added to your document.If applied to a long text, this can be time-consuming, and you may want to correct hyphenations on a case-by-case instead. Hyphenation Suggestions: If you check this option, Scribus will suggest the hyphenation for every word in a text frame.In the Behaviour tab, you can determine the general behaviour of the hyphenator: This can be done via File > Document Setup > Hyphenator for the current document and File > Preferences > Hyphenation and Spelling for new documents. To get the best hyphenation results, you are advised to configure the hyphenator properly. There are other means to reducing visual ugliness or distraction in text, but hyphenation is probably the simplest. Hence the strong recommendation to use the hyphenator for continuous text. A general rule is that the shorter the a line of text, the more likely those gaps are. What you may easily see are white spaces that run vertically across lines of text, which are visually distracting. One of the reasons for ugly text layout is “rivers” between words. Hyphenation and Spellchecking Hyphenation Introduction If the rendering is insufficient you may try to find and view the page on the scribus-1.5.8.tar.xz project site itself. You can here alternatively try to browse the pure source code or just view or download the uninterpreted raw source code. Caution: In this restricted "Fossies" environment the current HTML page may not be correctly presentated and may have some non-functional links.
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