[scribus] Story Editor, Styles, & single words

[Craig Bradney]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 11:45:17 John Beardmore wrote:
> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > John Culleton wrote:
> >> On Friday 16 May 2008 12:59:53 pm Tom O'Sullivan wrote:
> >>> First I should say I'm not only new to Scribus, but new to layout &
> >>> dont even have much experience with word processors - my excuse for
> >>> any dumb questions!  :)
> >>>
> >>> Anyways, re the Story Editor and Text Styles:-
> >>>
> >>> It looks like styles can only be applied to full lines in the Stroy
> >>> Editor - is that correct?
> >>> When you have to make text, say, bold or italic within a sentence
> >>> is that done simply using the toolbar on top?
> >>>
> >>> I'm doing layout of a chapter of a book ("mock-up"/draft) that I'm
> >>> doing (semi-technical) illustrations for.
> >>> I'm wondering:- if they decide they want to change the font will I
> >>> have to go through the text and manually select & change font of
> >>> all the bold/italic words.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for any help!
> >>> Tom
> >>
> >> Highlight the word in hte story editor and then change the values up
> >> top. Clumsy, but that's how I do it.
> >
> > Just to be a little more clear, Styles are for paragraphs - if you apply
> > a Paragraph Style to a line, the entire line is affected. This does not
> > prevent you from changing a few words independently. This is the way
> > openoffice.org uses styles as well.
>
> Yes, but I wonder if there is mileage in being able to apply a style to
> a word or group of words as well ?

This is what Character Styles are for, as in 1.3.4+

Craig