[scribus] Importing from LibreOffice but using Scribus Styles

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 01/05/2012 06:26 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>
>> We've also discussed whether whatever it is that SE does (and maybe
>> there is little or nothing that it does uniquely) might simply be
>> incorporated into editing in the main window, and do without SE
>> altogether.
>>
>
> The main thing I use the SE for is applying paragraph styles one paragraph
> at a time.  I find it an easy, quick, intuitive way to apply them and would
> like to retain that ability.  Also, I find setting bits of text to italic,
> superscript or whatever quite simple.  It fits my minor needs exactly.
>
>
I'm with Joe on this point.  Importing text into the SE and applying
paragraph styles via the SE is MUCH easier than using the in frame
capability, IMO.  Like him, I do lots of italics and bold for the various
articles in my magazine and the SE make this easier as I don't have to
worry about doing anything to the layout while applying these styles,
whereas, doing it with the in frame technique, I find myself having to be
sure I have reselected the edit mode in the frame after I return from a
non-Scribus window and if I don't, attempting to highlight a string of text
may just move the entire frame as the edit mode has not been selected.
Limiting the possibility of too many actions in a given mode is not all bad.

Kudos for the 1.4.0 release!

John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  USA
editor at sera.org
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