>Louis Desjardins wrote: >> You're absolutely right, there is no room for confusion while using >> the styles. When in the Style Manager, the user can apply a keyboard >> shortcut to any style or leave it like that. If the user choose not >> to apply any keyboard shortcut, the only way to access the style will >> be through the Style Manager dialog (or palette) with mouse clicks. >> One click, one style. When a keyboard shortcut is applied, then this >> style can be applied with a keystroke. Whether the keystroke will >> have an effect or not depends on the context. One shortcut, one style. >> >> Case: >> 1. You have set 3 Paragraph Styles for Main Title, Lead Paragraph and >> Body Text, Main Title. >> 2. You have given these 3 styles keyboard shortcut 1, 2 and 3 on the keypad. >> 3. You have set 3 Frame Styles for Main Title, Lead Paragraph and >>Body Text : >> a) Large Frame that covers the width of the page, with a height of 3 >> cm within the margins, one column. >> b) Frame covering 2 column width plus the gap, for Lead Paragraph, >> with a height of 6 cm, one column. >> c) Large frame covering the width and height of the page, within the >> margins, set to 5 columns. >> 4. You give Frame Style a b c the following keyboard shortcut 4, 5 >> and 6 on the keybad. >> >> Now, when you're on a page with no object selected, if you hit keypad >> 1 2 or 3, nothing will happen. If you hit keypad 4,5 or 6, a text >> frame correspondind to your Frame Style will be created. >> In order for styles attributed to shortcut 1, 2 or 3 to work, you >> need to first select a Text Frame. >> >> >I think the "nothing happening" is consistent with other features of >Scribus which depend on a frame being selected. One other question might >be whether there should be an indicator on the toolbar that shows when >the feature is active (frame selected), then greyed out when a frame is >not selected. >> We could also set other Frame Styles for Images. Say for instance you >> have a magazine with 3 columns. Pics can be 1-column wide, 2-column >> or 3 column. For each, you can set a Frame Style with these >> pre-defined coordinates. Attribute to these the shortcuts 7, 8 and 9. >> You expect Scribus to create an image frame once you hit one of these >> 3 shortcuts. >> >> To create a Frame using the Style manager follows the same rules that >> you have to follow to draw any frame. You need to have a page in >> front of you. A Frame can be created on the page, within another >> frame or beside it. It doesn't matter. >> >> Same goes for Line Style or for any style. There cannot be any mix up >> because the same keystroke cannot call two different styles. If you >> need more keys, then you need to have a combination of Shift+Keypad >> or CTRL+Keypad, etc. Of course a power user will prefer to set the >> first keys available to the more repetitive tasks, leaving the other >> for less used styles. Provided the context is favorable for the Style >> to be applied, then the shortcut works. It's like hitting any key on >> the keyboard: it works only if the working conditions are met. >> >> If we are to have Image Style, this could only apply to an existing >> image within an Image Frame. If you hit the shortcut that is >> connected to an Image Style when you are editing text, then nothing >> will happen. >> >> In my office, we use those keypad shortcut everyday. In Quark, we are >> limited to Text Styles (paragraph and character styles). The keyboard >> is the fastest way to get things done (the mouse is really slow, we >> all know that). I can only see that implementing this in Scribus will >> definitely make it a very robust production tool. Expanding it to >> many other styles (Line, Characters, Frames, etc.) will make Scribus >> roar! :) >> >> >One of the things that keeps me using Wordperfect is macros. There are >many things in which it is convenient to assign a name to an arbitrary >series of operations. I'm not sure if you still can, but you used to be >able to assign a keyboard shortcut to a particular macro. This might be >something else to weave into this frame styles concept.
Yes. This is what I had in mind when I used the word "script". I was thinking of a way to easily do successive operations in one keystroke. What you describe is exactly that. Thanks! Louis > >Greg >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
