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Short Words for Scribus What the Short Words Plug-in Does: Short Words for Scribus is a special plug-in for adding non-breaking spaces before or after, so called, short words. These short words are specific to every language's typography rules, e.g. according to Czech, Polish, and Slovak typographical standards it is not allowed to leave one letter conjunctions at line ends, if the line contains more than 25 signs. A common issue are measure and weight units, where for obvious reasons non-breaking spaces should be put in-between the preceding numbers and the units. Last but not least, there are plenty of abbreviated academic degrees, military ranks etc, which should not be separated from their owners. Although Scribus team cannot individually address every one of these national standards, one of the Scribus core team developers, Petr Van&#283;k, decided to provide Scribus users with a plug-in, that can be easily customized to meet their specific needs. How it Works The screen shot below shows a sample text containing a short word before applying non-breaking spaces. Text sample before executing Short Words  The same text after applying non-breaking spaces. The red encircled word Mr jumped to the next line, because the normal space between Mr and Justice has been replaced by a non-breaking space. Text sample after executing Short Words  How to execute Short Words If you successfully installed the plug-in, go to the   menu and choose the   option:  Calling Short Words for Scribus   Short Words dialog window     Selected frames - Apply non-breaking spaces to selected text frames  Active page - Apply non-breaking spaces to all frames of the current page.  All items - Apply non-breaking spaces to the whole document.  Replace defaults by user config - When the user config file exists you can choose if you want to append your config to the global configuration by unchecked button. You can replace predefined values with yours with checked button too.  Configuration Short Words for Scribus provides a system wide configuration file, which is usually located in the   directory (the actual directory depends on where you or your distribution installed Scribus). This configuration file is self explanatory, basically it contains a list of short words for a given language, preceded or followed by a space and separated by commas. The position of the space, before or after a short word, indicates to the plug-in, where the non-breaking space should be put. Every line with configuration settings has to start with the language it is meant for, e.g. en for English or cs for Czech: #  English stuff START here en=Dr. ,Dr ,Mr. ,Mr ,Mrs. ,Mrs ,Ms. ,Ms ,Prof. ,Prof ,Rev. ,Rev, en= Kg, kg, g, mg, oz, lb, cwt, km, Km, m, cm, mm, #  Czech short words START here ## hanging conjunctions cs=K ,k ,S ,s ,V ,v ,Z ,z ,O ,o ,U ,u ,I ,i ,A , ## physics and math cs= kg, g, m, cm, mm, l, hl, s, %,  If you want to use self defined short words, e.g. for a new language, create your own configuration file with your own short words, and save the file as   in the   directory. You can choose the plugin appends your configuration into the system one or just to replace and use it only itself. Important The author is eager to extend the global configuration file to meet your needs, let him know about the short words and standards specific to your language. Short Words Copyright Short Words for Scribus Copyright 2003, 2004 Petr Van&#283;k, &lt;[mailto:petr@yarpen.cz petr@yarpen.cz]&gt;