-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK, now I finally was able to spend some time trying out your advices. Well, let's see:
>>> > But I had a couple of problems and wondered if they were "normal" or if >>> > it was just my inexperience.. >>> > 1. I wanted to use medieval numbering. As the feature's implementation is >>> > work in progress (I appreciate very much!!) I wanted to use the search >>> > and replace tool in the editor and replace the numbers instead of the >>> > regular font with the special cap font. Manually done it worked. But >>> > replacing p.e. all 0s with the tool nothing changed. Has anybody >>> > experienced the same thing? >>> >>> What do you mean by medieval numbering? You can use any font (that has >>> numbers) to use the automatic page numbering. Not sure to understand >>> your question here. >> As medieval numbers I intend those povided by special caps. Indeed for page >> numbering it is no problem because I just choose one font. But in the text >> itself I have to combine two fonts, one normal for the whole text, and one >> special caps font for the numbers. But with the search/replace tool I was not >> able to substitute them. Anyway this is not so big a problem, normal numbers >> wold work too. > > I am doing this often. It works fine here. I will go over the steps > because we never know! Something might have just slipped... When you > look for your number 1, the only field that is needed is the text > field in the Search section. In the Replace section, you need to fill > 2 fields. You look for the same number 1 in the Text field. But the > font is different there. So you check the font and select the one > right for you. Isn't it? It should work like a breeze, although it > might take some time with long text. > > One extra hint to accelerate the Search/Replace process: > You can do this in a text frame even though you do not see all your > text in that text frame. The text is taken into account by Scribus > nonetheless. It's only the frame that will show a crossed square in > the lower right corner. Perform your Search & Replace operation in > that frame containing all your text but not showing it. All the text > will be processed and it will take much less time than if you do this > after the text has been flowed into many pages. > >> Christoph: Thanks, so I will retry. The font has definitely different 0s as I >> saw formatting one by hand! > > Please do. Christoph is right. Should work fine. Otherwise, for the > sake of finding out, try another font that has the same numbering > option. Might be a font problem. That's a good way to narrow down the > issue. I have chosen another font (also with special caps). My error beforse had been that I indicated also on the search side the font. After doing as Christoph suggested, some numbers got replaced - but others not and I don't understand why. Then I tried it conferming every search result, and those confermed manually indeed got formatted correctly. But certainly for a longer text this is not possible to do. Well, in the end it is not so important, I may expect the new feature in 1.4 or even earlier. >>> > 2. I wanted to manually lay out footnotes (I know, another feature in >>> > progress, I also appreciate very much!!) I did an indentation of all >>> > lines of a paragraph except the first. But then I had to use in the first >>> > line after the number a tabulator space (I hope you understand what I try >>> > to explain..). I clicked on the tabulator button in properties and set >>> > one. But using afterwards the tab it gave a much longer tabulator space, >>> > so also this did not work that way. Did I do something wrong? >>> >>> Have a look in the Scribus wiki and look for list or bulleted list. You >>> should find exactly what you're looking for. >>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_create_lists_in_scribus_1.2x >>> (This is good also for 1.3.x) >> Great, I will try this. I'm not sure if I explained myself well because this actually I had done yet (at least if I understand your howto correctly). The paragraph's indentation is not the problem. But I don't get a tab space in the first line to get it initiate consistently not after one space behind the number (because using giustification spaces vary) but at let's say 5 mm. I don't understand what way tabs work in Scribus. I hit the tab and saw that the text begun (with standard definition) at ca. 27.5 mm. Then I assigned a tab at 5 mm to a certain paragraph style. Applying the style to the paragraph the text now begun at ca. 28.5 mm!! It seems quite strange to me. >>> > 3. Maybe the most basical thing, but I did not find anything in the bug >>> > database, maybe I did not use the right search words: in QuarkXPress or >>> > other DTPs you can create a text frame in the master page and after this >>> > applying the master page to the document inserting a text file >>> > automatically the textframes are filled up one by one. In Scribus >>> > creating a text frame in the master page does not work for me. I see just >>> > the lines but I have to insert the text frames manually, quite a work for >>> > a longer document. >>> >>> In the first step when you create a new document, there is a check box >>> [auto text frame] in the New dialog. This is where you tell Scribus to >>> do what you want to achieve here. This text box will link automatically >>> to any new page inserted/created from the Page > Insert Page menu. It is >>> important to mention that Scribus does not yet add pages automatically >>> to accomodate a long text. But once you add those pages manually (you >>> can add as much as you can at once), the text will flow automatically >>> into the new pages. >> Oh, adding pages is no problem, I might do this by hand, but fine I will try >> this too. Another detail. When I work with two text frames on each page, one >> for the main text, one for the footnotes (which I imported from the html >> file), how do I separate the two frames in way that the main text is >> inserted only in the upper text frame and those for the footnotes remain >> blank and after this copying and pasting the footnote text into the frame it >> flows only in these frames? Maybe it's to compley as long as footnotes are >> not supported. > > 1. Activate the auto text frame option in the New dialog > 2. Working on an active page, add a frame for your footnotes > 3. Go to Page > Duplicate Page ... > > The top frame is the one that is automatically created and linked to > previous pages > The bottom frame is not linked automatically. But you can easily link > it to any other frame of your choice using the link tool in the upper > bar. > OK, I just let footnote frames apart, might be a bit complicated for the time being for me. I just created a new document, but in the dialog there was no auto frame option. At least it is not the automatic column option. Activated this I got something similar. Text flows from one frame to another but each frame covers the whole page's area up to the border. So I have manually to reorder them. But to create a text frame of a certain measure just in the middle of the page I was not able to do. Regards. - -Bjoern. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFECy52uCPk3QsCDMsRAjNmAKCP48I8LzYF9D9gcA6mY2gq6cxIiQCguof2 Xt1UYUaRZP95scontXRFVZw= =XA24 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it
