> Playing with the Symbol concept a bit suggests to me that this is meant > to be a kind of Pattern which you might use for the background or fill > of some object. So rather than needing to find patterns outside of > Scribus, you can make your own from various objects. Therefore, by > itself, it isn't really an "object" in a Scribus sense, but needs to be > inserted into an object so that this kind of setting is possible. > > To do what you are wanting to do, I think you should put your item in > the Scrapbook, where you can reuse it as many times as you want, and > have the Text Flows capability when you need it. I was looking for something like inkscape's clone, where modifying the original will automatically change also all clones, and thought symbols were meant for these kind of things. Using scrapbook is a good idea.
Cheers, vaclav
