[scribus] How do you handle boxes for headlines?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Hi all,

just a question to the professionals who have to manage longer documents:

When you have a lot of headlines with colored boxes under the letters, 
how do you handle this in practice? I'm thinking of the style of a 
language learning book with chapters and sub-chapters dividing the page 
into several sections by a thick colored bar with the chapter's headline 
on it, like this:

|----------------
|2.1  Headline
|----------------

I would need the same box being reproduced for each header. Do you just 
copy/paste, or is there some more intimate trick for it? Do you use a 
separate box/text, or would you use a single colored textbox for it? And 
is it possible to make an anchor to the text to keep the box fixed to 
its headline?

This is my solution so far: I make two layers, on layer 1 I set the 
text, and on layer 0 I set the boxes afterwards. With copy/paste I can 
reproduce the same box sizes.

What I cannot achieve is positioning the boxes exactly in relation to 
the headlines so it looks like they really belong together on each page 
again. And if the text changes, the boxes may be on a completely wrong 
position.

So, how do you handle this?

Thanks for all insights!

Rolf