[Scribus] Fwd: Re: varia

[Bjoern Schoepe]

Sorry, yesterday I chose the wrong mal adress, so it did not reach the list...

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Subject: Re: [Scribus] varia
Date: 18:16, gioved? 2 marzo 2006
From: Bjoern Schoepe <bjoernschoepe at yahoo.it>
To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de

Alle 18:03, gioved? 2 marzo 2006, Louis Desjardins ha scritto:

Oh, thanks a lot for that quick and competent answer!!

> Bjoern Schoepe a ?crit :
> > Hi everybody!
> > First of all, I'm not very experienced with DTP but I'm fascinated by the
> > Scribus project. I love to experience with the possibilities it offers,
> > yet.
>
> Hi Bjoern,
>
> Welcome to Scribus!
>
> > But I had a couple of problems and wondered if they were "normal" or if
> > it was just my inexperience..
> > 1. I wanted to use medieval numbering. As the feature's implementation is
> > work in progress (I appreciate very much!!) I wanted to use the search
> > and replace tool in the editor and replace the numbers instead of the
> > regular font with the special cap font. Manually done it worked. But
> > replacing p.e. all 0s with the tool nothing changed. Has anybody
> > experienced the same thing?
>
> What do you mean by medieval numbering? You can use any font (that has
> numbers) to use the automatic page numbering. Not sure to understand
> your question here.

As medieval numbers I intend those povided by special caps. Indeed for page
numbering it is no problem because I just choose one font. But in the text
itself I have to combine two fonts, one normal for the whole text, and one
special caps font for the numbers. But with the search/replace tool I was not
able to substitute them. Anyway this is not so big a problem, normal numbers
wold work too.
Christoph: Thanks, so I will retry. The font has definitely different 0s as I 
saw formatting one by hand!

> > 2. I wanted to manually lay out footnotes (I know, another feature in
> > progress, I also appreciate very much!!) I did an indentation of all
> > lines of a paragraph except the first. But then I had to use in the first
> > line after the number a tabulator space (I hope you understand what I try
> > to explain..). I clicked on the tabulator button in properties and set
> > one. But using afterwards the tab it gave a much longer tabulator space,
> > so also this did not work that way. Did I do something wrong?
>
> Have a look in the Scribus wiki and look for list or bulleted list. You
> should find exactly what you're looking for.
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_create_lists_in_scribus_1.2x
> (This is good also for 1.3.x)

Great, I will try this.

> > 3. Maybe the most basical thing, but I did not find anything in the bug
> > database, maybe I did not use the right search words: in QuarkXPress or
> > other DTPs you can create a text frame in the master page and after this
> > applying the master page to the document inserting a text file
> > automatically the textframes are filled up one by one. In Scribus
> > creating a text frame in the master page does not work for me. I see just
> > the lines but I have to insert the text frames manually, quite a work for
> > a longer document.
>
> In the first step when you create a new document, there is a check box
> [auto text frame] in the New dialog. This is where you tell Scribus to
> do what you want to achieve here. This text box will link automatically
> to any new page inserted/created from the Page > Insert Page menu. It is
> important to mention that Scribus does not yet add pages automatically
> to accomodate a long text. But once you add those pages manually (you
> can add as much as you can at once), the text will flow automatically
> into the new pages.

Oh, adding pages is no problem, I might do this by hand, but fine I will try
this too. Another detail. When I work with two text frames on each page, one
for the main text, one for the footnotes (which I imported from the html
file), how do I separate the two frames in  way that the main text is
inserted only in the upper text frame and those for the footnotes remain
blank and after this copying and pasting the footnote text into the frame it
flows only in these frames? Maybe it's to compley as long as footnotes are
not supported.
But thanks a lot for these hints!
-Bjoern.

> > I'm using Scribus 1.3.2 (unstable ebuild) on Gentoo Linux for PPC.
> > Greetings and thanks for hints or comments.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> > -Bjoern.
>
> Louis

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