[scribus] Question

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:45:49 -0400
Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo:

>On 09/27/2011 08:32 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>> On 9/27/11 2:45 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:48:35 +0000 (UTC)
>>> bkramer25 at comcast.net dijo:
>>>
>>>> I am composing a newsletter with Scribus. I have articles that are
>>>> linked together with text boxes but they are on different pages. I
>>>> want to know if there is a way to put a footer on the text box with
>>>> "continued on page #" where # would be the page number of the
>>>> linked box.

>>> Scribus does not have such a feature, although I suspect it could be
>>> scripted.

>> i first wrote:
>>
>> "i don't think that it can be (easily) scripted..."
>>
>> but, hey, yes, now i think that it could be really easy to script
>> it... there are just one or two thing to be checked and see if all
>> the methods are in the scripter (and if they're not write a feature
>> request against scripter 2)

>This is something that eventually would be nice to have within Scribus 
>proper, by treating the '#' as a more useful variable.

I have to agree heartily. It would be very useful. Every other layout
program can do this. Tragically, I am unable to write code, but at
least I can cheer the effort on.