On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:44, Susan Hogarth wrote: > Please forgive my questions as I am new not just to Scribus, but (fairly new) > to DTP as well. I have worked with Framemaker a bit, but that's it. > > I need to set a text style within a textbox. I'm having trouble setting the > justification - when I select 'center' for exmaple, it may center a few lines > but not all the selected text. When I reselect the text and check, it is > listed > as 'left' justified. Help! > > Thanks!
First, get the latest 1.1.3. It has lots of fixes and enhancements to text handling, including importing styles and page templates from other docs. Two, this version has a separate story editor, which will greatly ease the type of text formatting. Within the story editor, you can create and apply paragraph styles. So for example, in your case, you would create a text style called center with the font and alignment options you want. Then it is simply choosing is the story editor, which paragraphs to apply this. To open the story editor, choose a text frame > Right click > Edit Text.. Peter
