On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote: > On 01/05/2012 06:26 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> We've also discussed whether whatever it is that SE does (and maybe >> there is little or nothing that it does uniquely) might simply be >> incorporated into editing in the main window, and do without SE >> altogether. >> > > The main thing I use the SE for is applying paragraph styles one paragraph > at a time. I find it an easy, quick, intuitive way to apply them and would > like to retain that ability. Also, I find setting bits of text to italic, > superscript or whatever quite simple. It fits my minor needs exactly. > > I'm with Joe on this point. Importing text into the SE and applying paragraph styles via the SE is MUCH easier than using the in frame capability, IMO. Like him, I do lots of italics and bold for the various articles in my magazine and the SE make this easier as I don't have to worry about doing anything to the layout while applying these styles, whereas, doing it with the in frame technique, I find myself having to be sure I have reselected the edit mode in the frame after I return from a non-Scribus window and if I don't, attempting to highlight a string of text may just move the entire frame as the edit mode has not been selected. Limiting the possibility of too many actions in a given mode is not all bad.
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