On Friday, June 03, 2011 02:31:05 pm Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 06/03/2011 02:06 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On 06/03/2011 10:29 AM, St?phanie Vilayphiou wrote: > >>> I also think Story Editor is a key function. > >>> It is not only about copying/pasting text, but it is about editing > >>> afterwards. It is very convenient to edit. You don't have to zoom > >>> in/out to edit very small captions for example. Or in my latest work, > >>> I had text upside/down, so Story Editor is perfect for that. Although > >>> it misses a lot of features present in the Properties palette, so a > >>> lot of stuff is impossible to do directly in there, i.e. applying a > >>> character style (absolutely necessary!). > >>> please don't kill it! > >> > >> I don't know that there is an effort to simply kill the SE. > >> It's more of a recognition of SE's limitations that is the source of > >> trouble. > >> > >> I do agree that some sort in bulk simple editing is needed. Perhaps one > >> answer might come from a free-standing plain text editor that can import > >> from/save to the document, called up like Gimp is called up, with some > >> sort of tags to denote things like paragraph and character styles. > >> > >> At the moment what we have is a mix of those who don't use and recommend > >> to others not to use SE, and those who still use it in spite of its > >> shortcomings. > >> > >> Greg > > > > I think it's been asked here before, but what is the problem with the > > Style Editor co-existing with the in frame editing capability? I can > > see advantages to both methods of composing and editing depending on > > what task I am doing at the moment. I recognize that my rather > > repetitious paragraph style formatted magazine may not be representative > > of the work many other Scribus users do, but the Scribus does tend to > > try to accommodate all types of DTP, it seems. Therefore, with a few > > updates, the Story Editor would seem to fill its role quite nicely. I > > fail to see the major problems that necessitate an external editor and > > fear the issues that potential editor might bring about. > > Don't take what I said too seriously. It's mostly that some feel the SE > is quite useless for their needs (I still find it useful). So there is > this push to "rewrite" the SE -- but to what? > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.net > > Use http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus to unsubscribe or > edit your options. > > Scribus Forums are available at http://forums.scribus.net > > Notice: Scribus mailing lists were migrated to a new host and now reside at > lists.scribus.net, so a new list address scribus at lists.scribus.net has to > be used.
IMHO put it back the way it was, with an exit to the style editor and with the save and exit icon clearly visible. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Death Wore Black" Police procedural by retired police chief Bill Redding -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110603/87337347/attachment.html>
