[Scribus] The layout of books or large documents with Scribus

[Gregory Pittman]

Axel Bojer wrote:
> Axel Bojer skrev:
> (...)
>   
>> 2. Specific problems:
>> a) Copying and pasting within the story editor takes forever, even if it 
>> is only onecharacter, but, strange enough, writing or getting the same 
>> sign from the "Insert -- Glyph" takes forever, I have not bothered 
>> waiting long enough (More than 20 min. I think) to see if this is just a 
>> delay or a crash. If this is not formerly reported I could try to check 
>> it out.
>>     
>
> Typo: writing or getting the same  sign from the "Insert -- Glyph" is 
> pretty fast :-)
> Is there a way to just enter the code, for instanse 220 to set in the 
> wanted symbol directly? This wpuld make it a bit faster for signs that I 
> have to use many times (so that I can take the time to remember the 
> code, that is :-)
>   
I'm glad you mentioned this, because I think some variation on this 
would be useful. I find that keyboard shortcuts for characters don't 
work in Story Editor (in the past at least).
Having the ability to perhaps have a series of characters, like 
"220+230+137" might be useful in various situations.

One of the reasons I still use Wordperfect as a word processor in 
Windows is that it has the ability to perform macros (Word had some 
incarnation of its own that I have a hard time figuring out) -- a 
sequence of operations that might be keyboard entry, might be operations 
-- I guess what we might consider from Scribus's perspective to be 
miniscripts. Is there a way of doing that?

Greg