: Is it possible to set the underline thickness with Scribus? I'm experiencing a strange behaviour with Scribus; I'm using version 1.5.1, I don't know if it's relevant but I'm under openSUSE. I
I'm experiencing a strange behaviour with Scribus; I'm using version 1.5.1, I don't know if it's relevant but I'm under openSUSE.
I have noticed that when I try to underline the text, the thickness of the line is always the same, and does not scale up or down according to the text dimension, like it does on every other program that I know.
In example, this is what underlining does in LibreOffice Writer:
And this is the same thing done in Scribus:
As you can see the effect is much better when the line has more or less the same thickness of the letters. I've tried to change the font, but it happens every time.
Is this a feature or a bug? Is there an option somewhere to enable the scalable thickness? Or to manually set it to a fixed dimension of my choosing?
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My general advice: don't underline text.
Or better: only underline text for ornamental / graphical purposes.
Underlining for emphasizing is an heritage from the typewriter time, where there was no italic and no bold.
That being said, in text processing, underlines is still required in some types of documents (depending of your country: legal documents!).
But since in DTP the usage should be purely ornemental, I would say that the current behavior in Scribus (manually setting the underline, as Sekhemty correctly suggests) is the right one...
If you look closely at the "U" for underline, you would see that there's a drop-down arrow as part of the button. If you click and hold the button, you will have two additional properties: "displacement" and "line width". My screenshot tool doesn't seem to want to capture that, but click and hold where the arrow is pointing....
I would suggest experimenting with both of these to get exactly the type of line you want, which I suspect would be different according to the font you're using.
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