[Scribus] templates for text?

[Craig Bradney]

Hi

I would suggest you upgrade to CVS if possible, just to avoid some
issues in 1.1.6.

Anyway, just make 2 column text frames (edit number of columns is set on
the Properties palette on Shape page), then link the frames together.
Link and unlink buttons are on the toolbar.

Re templates.. no.. templates are NOT editable (YET). Another option is
to create your document with automatic text frames which are auto
created on new page created and auto linked.

Craig

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 08:15, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I sent this to the list a few days ago but didn't see it back via the list,
> nor did I get any reply. Did this make it through? Apologies if it is a
> double post, but I'd really like to know the answer...
> 
> --Stijn
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Stijn Hoop <stijn at win.tue.nl> -----
> 
> From: Stijn Hoop <stijn at win.tue.nl>
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:44:29 +0200
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Subject: templates for text?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Scribus so please bear with me if this is a FAQ - I googled but
> couldn't find the answer on my own.
> 
> I'd like to import a large ASCII text file for formatting, so I tried to
> create a template with 2 column style textframes, so that the standard layout
> of a page was defined. The problem is that a) I can't link those 2 textframes
> to each other from with the 'edit template' function and b) I can't put text
> in them when I'm in 'normal' editing mode (ie not editing the templates).
> 
> How should I do this without copy & paste'ing 2 text boxes on every page?
> Am I missing something?
> 
> http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/docs/page2.html#maquette_crea
> 
> lists this as a normal task, but unfortunately is for an older version
> of Scribus and dismisses the 'insert text' problem with a rather vague
> sentence that doesn't say how to actually do this:
> 
> "It now remains to let the text fill the inside pages by chaining the last
> frame of the cover with the first of page 2, and continuing thus through the
> logical sequence of the document."
> 
> FWIW, I'm using Scribus 1.1.6 on FreeBSD -CURRENT.
> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> --Stijn
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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