[scribus] text styles in footnotes (1.5.0svn)

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/16/2013 02:40 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
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>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2013 um 19:26 Uhr
>> Von: "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at comcast.net>
>> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>> Betreff: Re: [scribus] text styles in footnotes (1.5.0svn)
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:09:43 -0400
>> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:
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>>> I'm posting this to try to generate some feedback, not only from the
>>> Scribus team, on the direction that this should go by some consensus.
>>
>> Your suggestions make sense to me. All other programs I have used have
>> a default footnote style. The user can modify it with the same dialog
>> windows as other styles, but it gets applied automatically to
>> footnotes. In LibreOffice it is based on the Default style (which the
>> user can also modify), so the footnote style ends up with the same
>> font, tab settings, etc. as the other text on the page except that the
>> font size is a point or two less than the default.
>>
> 
> I've been repeating this for years on this list and elsewhere: The way StarOffice 5.x (I miss you, sniff) and its successors (OO.o, LO) handles and manages styles is almost impossible to beat. It's simply rational, logical, and efficient :)
> 
What are the salient features that would be applicable to the Scribus
environment?

Greg