2010/3/9 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> > > facing pages layout. Especially if there are many elements on the page. > So > > we would actually need to ?flip the containers? without flipping the > > content! ?Flip? the alignment of text (and affect stylesheets? or master > > pages?) If the change only affects one text frame on each page, then I > guess > > As I wrote before: MS Word handles it perfectly
Does OpenOffice.org handle it too? in much the same way as MS Word? > by allowing the > position of a frame (MS Word DOES have text frames too) to be: > > For horisontal position > - Absolute i relation to > a) Page (what Scribus does) > b) Margin > c) Column > d) Character (yes, you can locate a frame relative a single character) > - Book layout (this is what we are looking for) > a) Inside Margin > b) Inside Page > c) Outside Margin > d) Outside Page > - Justified > a) Left of Page, Margin, Column or Character > b) Centered on Page, Margin, Column or Character > c) Right of Page, Margin, Column or Character > > For Vertical position position the choices are very much the same, > with the following differences: > Book layout is not available, only Justified and Absolute > Column is replaces by Paragraph > Character is replace by Line > Left and Right replaced by Top/Bottom. > > > And yes, it probably requires quite a change to Scribus, but looking > at how many people ask on this list for if Scribus is suitable for > books I really think these features (as well as foonotes, TOC/index > from styles and a few other) are getting more and more important. > > /Peter > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100309/bd799757/attachment.htm>
