[Scribus] Tutorial and page numbers.

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 07:56 pm, Craig Bradney wrote:
(John Culleton wrote)
> >  I tried to put the page numbers on the left and right
> > page templates per the instructions. The instructions
> > say "Ctl+#" without the quotes of course. So I held
> > down the Ctl and the shift and keyed #. That put the #
> > character there in the text block for the footer.
> >
> > However when I insert e.g., page 2 in the document
> > using the template the # remains and there is no
> > substitution of a page number.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> It means you are inserting the # character and not the
> page number. It is a problem on various keyboard layouts.
> The best suggestion is choose your favourite unused F
> key, eg F7 and reprogram the pagenumber insert code to be
> that instead.

Somehow the function got transmuted to Alt+(shift of course)
+#, and that combination works. It took me a bit to figure 
out how to reprogram a key, but since the above combo works 
I will not fiddle further. 

ON to page 13!

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John Culleton
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