Paul wrote: > If there's one thing that bugs me about scribus, and it's bugged me > about Pagemaker and InDesign too, is that editing text in a text box is > so slow that sometimes it's hard to see what you've typed or selected. > > I suspect that in some sense the developers see the 'righteous' answer > as to use the story editor, but then you can't see how the layout is > shaping up. Generally I have a preference for editing direct in the > text box - at least it's WYSIWYG. Personally I'd be happy to dispense > with the story editor editor altogether, though that may mean that I'm > missing some tricks. > > Could you briefly explain what you are talking about here? I had no problem > editing text within the multiple text boxes I used on my > Newspaper/Newsletter Template. Is there some other 'text box' that I should > be aware of before I continue development additional pages to my project? >
One of the things you can do in Story Editor is size and position it so that you can periodically type Ctrl-U to update the frame on screen without leaving SE. Greg
