[scribus] Linking text frames

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 03 October 2010 17:00:40 Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 10/03/2010 04:23 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 12:01:07 -0600
> >
> > Steven Dayton<daytonmeister at gmail.com>  dijo:
> >> I'm trying to work with linked text frames. I have two separate
> >> stories or articles and I want to link all text frames in one
> >> story and link all text frames in the other story. So far it
> >> seems I can only link all of the text frames. Am I missing
> >> something? Is it possible to have separate groups of linked text
> >> frames?
> >>
> >> I'm working in Scribus 1.3.8.
> >
> > As far as I know you can have as many sets of linked text frames
> > as you want, each a separate set. I recently finished a student
> > workbook with 13 exercises, each a separate set of linked text
> > frames, plus another 13 sets for the answer keys.
> >
> > I can't figure out how you created your text frames such that you
> > can't link them as separate sets.
>
> A little hard to be sure, but it sounds like you may just want to
> unlink somewhere in the middle, then begin a new linking sequence.
>
> Select the frame you want to be last in an existing linkage, select
> the unlink icon, then the next frame, and the link should be
> broken.
>
> Let us know if we're not getting the gist of your situation.
>
> Greg
>
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I can see how one could create a sequence of unlinked frames, perhaps 
2 to a page, and manually link frames 1 to 3 to 5 to 7 and 2 to 4 to 6 
to 8. But this is a manual, not an automatic process.

Is there a more elegant way to do this?
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John Culleton
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