[Scribus] Insert special / paragraph styles / pasteboard

[proselyte at earthling.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:26:21 +0200
To: Fvrnamn Efternamn <proselyte at earthling.net>
Subject: Re: [Scribus] Insert special / paragraph styles / pasteboard

> Hi
> 
> > I have been testing the cvs-version now for a while, it looks like it will become a wonderful program. Having used Quark before I tried to reconstruct an old document (made in Quark). While doing this a couple of questions came up,
> > 
> > 1. Lines under/over paragraphs: In quark these are set in paragraph styles, where (if anywhere) can these settings found in scribus.
> 
> Not sure.. i dont use Quark, if its part of the paragraph style then
> this does not exist yet.

Ok, then I know.
 
> > 2. There is a menu in scribus "Extras->Insert special". When I click this nothing happens, should anything happen? I expected to get a menu (dialog) where I could choose to insert pagenumber, non-breaking space, en, em etc. (all those things whose keyboard combination seems to slip from memory from time to time).
> 
> Try running Scribus from the command line. I expect you will see some
> errors about not finding a plugin. How did you install Scribus? 

No errors when running from command line.
Debian apt-get from apt-get.org.

> > 3. Pasteboard: In quark there is space around the document where I can paste pictures and textboxes for later use (or when moving around), I haven't been able to find a way to do this in scribus. Is there a way to set this up?
> 
> Tools, Scrapbook should help you out. Theres no way at this point to
> have space around a page. You can send items to the Scrapbook for
> storage and bring them back when required.

Yes scrapbook helps, didn't see that one, thanks.
Although I still miss the pasteboard, was much easier to work with.


Best regards,
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