Re: Script for (french) thin typographic spaces

JLuc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.scribus
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Le 02/06/2020 à 13:44, Silvain Dupertuis a écrit :
> 1. The thin space *is not accessible from the Insert Spaces and Breaks Menu* in text using fonts like Times, Arial, 
> Liberation...
> Which seems to suggest that this character is missing in these fonts.

Is there a python function to check whether a glyph exists in some font or not ?

This is an issue that i usually circumvene adding a thin space not of the local font,
but of a dedicated font.

> I remember having seen a script to add non-breaking spaces in French.

Autoquote and Autoquote2 in the scripts menu ?

I realize there is even an Autoquote3 : https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Autoquote2
(even if the title of the page is autoquote2)

JL

> Le 02.06.20 à 11:42, Jean-François Lemaire a écrit :
>> Hi JLuc,
>>
>> On Tuesday, 2 June 2020 11:33:43 CEST JLuc wrote:
>>> Has somebody writtend a script to add thin typographic spaces where required
>>> for french ?
>> I can't answer your question because I don't know but I would like to mention
>> that such thin spaces would need to be nonbreaking to be really useful. This
>> is sorely missing in Scribus for us French language users.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> JFL
> 
> 



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