On Saturday 18 December 2004 11:00 robert wrote: > ><snip> The only potentially useful function, off > > the top of my head, would be to automate the flow of text into > > similar-shaped text boxes on the following page(s). Want to compete with > > MS Office? Use StarOffice/OpenOffice, or one of the miriad other > > competitors. > > > > Rainer Heilke > > I've been playing with 1.2.1 (cvs) and apparently scribus does have this > feature. When the new document dialog box comes up, there is a check box > for "automatic text frames" which does create a page sized (but within the > margins) text frame and links it to the previous one whenever you add a new > page.
Wow! This is *exactly* what I was envisioning as a central part of the WP-like features I was talking of. I would have proposed allowing "automatic frames" to propagate horizontally, vertically, or both. Standard WP-like behaviour would be vertical, in page-sized quanta. However, propagating horizontally, in columns, and/or vertically as needed would allow greater flexibility. In addition, I would like to see (and am happy to propose) a method for automatically capturing and managing style information to maximise its benefit and reuse. Finally, a few more visual "GUI" controls for certain features. Eg, I believe that page numbers are inserted with a "magic key sequence". An additional menu-driven system would help the more casual users. Cheers! Nik.
