On 11/09/2015 08:38 AM, ale rimoldi wrote: > > Kicker > ------ > > The _kicker_ is a typical design element used in newspapers: a row above > the headline in a small font defining the thematic placement of the > article, typically followed by a line of the same width as the article. > In the screenshot you see a single-column example. > > > Unfortunately, Scribus does not provide a specific function for drawing > the line below the kicker. Of course you can just draw a line, but there > is a workaround, that is faster. > > Some experiments have lead to the following trick: > > 1. First lay out the kicker itself and create a specific paragraph style > for it. > 2. Below the kicker, insert a new paragraph containing a single white > space. Then create a new paragraph style: use a very small line spacing > (3pt in my example), set the text alignment to "forced justified" and > underline the text; with a long click on the "Underline" button you can > define the thickness, the margin and the color for the underline. > Finally, apply the new style to to the "empty" paragraph. (_Important_: > If you have text control characters enabled, you won't see the line; > disable the rendering of the text control characters in "View > Show > control characters" to the line.) > > > The trick works by scaling a single underlined white space to the width > of the text frame. > > Thought this technique is outside the box, it works. > > _This contribution was first published by Manutius in [the German > Scribus forum](http://scribus-user.de/forum)._
As I look at this problem/solution, it occurs to me that a kicker is really a specialized usage of an InfoBox, so it would seem that you could modify InfoBox.py to do this job, even putting in a column-wide line, by one means or another. Greg
