[scribus] Problem with "first line offset"

[Gregory Pittman]

On 1/7/19 7:11 PM, pezcurrel wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 18:29:59 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/7/19 5:53 PM, pezcurrel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a problem with "first line offset": it defaults to "maximum
>>> ascent" for new text frames; I need to set it to "font ascent" for
>>> all the text frames in a long document, but I can do it only one text
>>> frame by one.
>>> It would be great if it was possible to set it for all the selected
>>> text frames :)  
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> I think we've had this question before. There are two basic
>> workarounds.
>>
>> The first would be the brute force way of editing the .sla file. There
>> is a variable named FLOP, that would be FLOP="0" for Maximum ascent,
>> or FLOP="1" for Font ascent. So you could just edit all of these in
>> the file with a text editor.
> 
> I think I'll go this way, in my case it seems a lot faster than the
> other one. Thanks a lot :)
> 
>> The other way, which is the one I would probably use, would be to
>> copy-paste an empty frame which has the right setting for first line
>> offset. Even better might be to send a text frame with the right
>> setting to the Scrapbook. If you right-click the item in the
>> Scrapbook, one of the choices is Paste to Page, which puts the frame
>> on the currently selected Page.
> 
> In both ways I would have to do it for every page in a very long
> document, which would be as time consuming as setting the first line
> offset for each text frame.
> 
> Anyway I think it should be possible to do it for multiple selected
> text frames from within scribus. What is the most appropriate place to
> make-discuss feature suggestions?

The problem with multiple selected frames is that these act as a group, and you cannot change text frame features.
Anyway, you can go to 
https://bugs.scribus.net/my_view_page.php
to sign up for an account and then make a feature request.

Greg