hi david, > I figured that the best way to deal with this is to come up with a > truncated style-naming system and rename the styles. That's when the > fight began. > > The following is the sequence of events that caused the scuffle: > 1) enter Master Pages... under Edit menu > 2) right click on existing text box with existing formatted text > (opens Story Editor) > 3) right click the style in style pane (opens Style Manager) > 4) click "Edit Styles..." at resultant window > 5) highlight existing style in left-hand pane of Style Manager > 6) rename the style to a more readable sized name in "Name:" space > 7) click Apply > 8) click OK > 9) "Scribus crash due to Signal#11" > > I have looked around and haven't seen a specific remedy to this > sequence of events. I have never filed a bug report. I don't know > if this is a bug or poor planning on my part. Any insight is greatly > appreciated.
in 1.3.9 edit styles has been removed from the story editor interface because it was buggy and not really needed: you can and should always go through the main navigation in "edit > manage styles". can you try to do the same from that menu? here, with 1.4.0.svn it does work correctly. ciao a.l.e
