[scribus] Easiest way to insert text.

[John Culleton]

On Friday, June 03, 2011 02:31:05 pm Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 02:06 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com>  
wrote:
> >> On 06/03/2011 10:29 AM, Stéphanie Vilayphiou wrote:
> >>> I also think Story Editor is a key function.
> >>> It is not only about copying/pasting text, but it is about editing
> >>> afterwards. It is very convenient to edit. You don't have to zoom
> >>> in/out to edit very small captions for example. Or in my latest work,
> >>> I had text upside/down, so Story Editor is perfect for that. Although
> >>> it misses a lot of features present in the Properties palette, so a
> >>> lot of stuff is impossible to do directly in there, i.e. applying a
> >>> character style (absolutely necessary!).
> >>> please don't kill it!
> >> 
> >> I don't know that there is an effort to simply kill the SE.
> >> It's more of a recognition of SE's limitations that is the source of
> >> trouble.
> >> 
> >> I do agree that some sort in bulk simple editing is needed. Perhaps one
> >> answer might come from a free-standing plain text editor that can import
> >> from/save to the document, called up like Gimp is called up, with some
> >> sort of tags to denote things like paragraph and character styles.
> >> 
> >> At the moment what we have is a mix of those who don't use and recommend
> >> to others not to use SE, and those who still use it in spite of its
> >> shortcomings.
> >> 
> >> Greg
> > 
> > I think it's been asked here before, but what is the problem with the
> > Style Editor co-existing with the in frame editing capability?  I can
> > see advantages to both methods of composing and editing depending on
> > what task I am doing at the moment.  I recognize that my rather
> > repetitious paragraph style formatted magazine may not be representative
> > of the work many other Scribus users do, but the Scribus does tend to
> > try to accommodate all types of DTP, it seems.  Therefore, with a few
> > updates, the Story Editor would seem to fill its role quite nicely.  I
> > fail to see the major problems that necessitate an external editor and
> > fear the issues that potential editor might bring about.
> 
> Don't take what I said too seriously. It's mostly that some feel the SE
> is quite useless for their needs (I still find it useful). So there is
> this push to "rewrite" the SE -- but to what?
> 
> Greg
> 
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IMHO put it back the way it was, with an exit to the style editor and with the 
save and exit icon clearly visible. 
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Death Wore Black"
Police procedural
by retired police chief Bill Redding
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