scribus-bounces at lists.scribus.info wrote on 09/30/2009 06:00:50 PM: > I may be missing the point but what about using a (right hand) tab and > fill characters? (On 1.3.5 go text/distances/tabs.) At least then the > guide lines and text are locked together and everything is subject to > paragraph styles. Certainly much faster.
That works great: if every line is the same length, and if you don't have multiple items per line. My example was extremely simplified. In reality, it's more like this (which is still *greatly* simplified): Name: __________________________ Date: ________ Time: _________ How do you do that with tabs, at least without trying to manually define the tabs on each and every line? The form I'm working with has one item per line, two items per line, three items per line, and four items per line, not to mention things like checkboxes. I am doing a *lot* with tabstops: I have tabstops set up for each of the numbers of columns. But you can't use tabs for the *fill* characters, which is why I'm focusing on lines. And if that's all I wanted to do, a word processor would have been the correct tool... For the record, Steven Dayton gave me what seems to be the right solution: embed the line vectors as a character in the text frame. Tim Massey
