On Nov 15, 2007 8:15 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > jwminer at accessvt.com wrote: > > I think a DTP application should be based on frames and styles. If > > you want body text, make a body text style. If you want headings, > > make a heading style, a subhead style, whatever you need. If you > > want a hanging indent, make a style for it. DON'T select text and > > apply formatting that way. Styles permit easy global changes and > > consistency of text elements throughout a document. > > Sometimes I'm doing something stupidly simple in Scribus. I don't need a > style. I just make a text frame, enter text then fiddle in the main > window to get what I want from the Text tab. Not everything I do in > Scribus needs all the features.
Not to mention, there are a lot of "one-off" styles in some documents. I just made a cover to a magazine that had 7 different styles on the page, each used exactly once. That would have been a mess. -- Chris