This is a "me too" for all of these improvement/feature request/bugfix ideas.
Hey, Jessica: Scribus 1.3.5 is released (pending?) It has a lot of improvements as far as user interface goes -- you may consider trying it. seeya On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jessica Evans <jessica at lunula.com> wrote: > Scribus 1.3.3.12 on Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600 > > Hi all, > > I suppose this is just feedback/venting of a sort, though there is some > inconsistent behavior by Scribus that may be fairly described as a bug. > > Like many others I am eagerly awaiting the ability to set character styles. > ?I also am hoping against hope that the powers that be will someday come to > see that it really does matter to the end user that we have no visual marker > in the story editor to signify that formatting has been changed for an > individual character. > For example, if I have 20 band names in a text box (embedded within a column > of body text) and I need to change each band name to bold and decrease by 1 > point size. I would really like some kind of visual reference in the story > editor so that I can see which ones I did and didn't get. ?The > disorientation of working in a field without any feedback whatsoever is > uncomfortable. > > I have been clicking inside the words and looking up at the font display > field, but found it to be unreliable...sometimes the correct (changed) font > is displayed, sometimes it still displays the paragraph style font, even > after the character font has been changed. > > Finally, the Story Editor often fails to display the paragraph style name at > the left for the first one or two paragraphs in the text box. It isn't > really that important...but again, it is disorienting. ?Not having that > visual feedback makes one wonder if something is wrong, and if one really > did set the paragraph style properly. > > Best wishes, Jessica > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- JDS
