[scribus] Error when running 'bcaption.py' with create caption modification

[Gregory Pittman]

On 01/08/2018 01:10 PM, David Danforth wrote:
> First, to Gregory Chapman:  Thanks for your series of scripts for
> creating captions.  I am finding them very useful indeed!
> 
> Second to GC or anyone who might know the answer:  When I run
> 'bcatpion.py with the create caption modification the following error
> message is returned:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
> File "C:\Program Files\Scribus
> 1.4.6\share\scripts\Caption_bottom_styled.py", line 58, in <module>
> scribus.createCharStyle("captionchar",font= "Liberation Serif Italic",
> fontsize=10.0, fillcolor=1) TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string
> or buffer, int found
> I do not have a "Caption" style created.  I am running Scribus 1.4.6 on
> Windows 10.
> 

I have to say that when I wrote that script I was rather naive about the
challenges of creating character and paragraph styles. I probably also
didn't try it on 1.4.6.

Change the two style-creating lines to this:

    scribus.createCharStyle("captionchar","Liberation Serif Italic",
10.0, 'Black')
scribus.createParagraphStyle("Caption",1,10.0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"captionchar")

I recently wrote a wiki page about these challenges and solutions:

https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Text_and_Text_Manipulation

Greg