While I'm still working on answers to questions in response to my original ones, I came up with a few more issues while using Scribus:
I'm not sure what is causing it but when I Get Text into linked text boxes after opening and closing the Story Editor on different boxes in the chain I end up with portions of the text being chopped up and distributed/orphaned between the text boxes, such that if I edit a given text box the SE only shows the portion of the text that happens to be in that box. But the only sure fire way to get text to reflow when I make edits (i.e., add or delete text to an earlier text box in the chain) is to delete all the text, relink the text boxes and Get Text again. Am I doing something wrong? What I would expect is that opening the story editor on any of a collection of linked text boxes should give the whole story. Deleting any text boxes in the chain shouldn't matter... whatever text boxes are left should inherit the story. So I suppose it is possible that I'm mistakenly unlinking boxes or something... but even then, it's kind of surprising that text gets orphaned in the box. If A->B->C and I delete the link between A and B I would expect A to get all the text and B->C to become empty. Also: Undo operation doesn't seem to include edits made in the text box No autoscoll when drag-highlighting text and moving past the end of the screen. Actually no autoscroll anywhere... if I adjust a text box size by dragging a control past end of the screen it should scroll so I can see what I'm doing. As it is I have to let the handle go and manipulate the scroll bar. Select-all when inside the text box, text tool selected should select-all w/in the text box, not all objects in the document. Also, when the caret is flashing inside a text box shift-arrow keys should select text, not move the text box. I'll consolidate all of these text tool issues into one bug if I find it's not in the tracker. While dragging out a vertical guide a spurious black line appears temporarily on the display When click on the screen with the Selection tool a spurious selection dashed-line box shows up on the screen and leaves a nice snail trail which doesn't go away until you trick it into repainting I noticed that when I hover over a selection handle wanting to resize a text box, that it changes to a double-ended arrow icon. But then when I go to drag the handle I ended up selecting the foreground object. Either it should let me grab the handle to do the adjustment, or it should never have changed to an adjustment icon since the appearence of the adjustment icon implies what the action will be if I start dragging the mouse pointer. Anyway I still plan to answer questions and enter these as bugs... just wanted to cull my list a little bit and get some clarity first. Also I'm a Scribus newbie so it may be valuable to devs to see what kind of issues users (even a programmer like myself) have out-of-the-box. I remember learning to use Quark, it was rough going at first. Some issues I'm sure are just learning-curve stuff. That and I'm trying to actually use Scribus for first issue of a magazine I'm working on so these responses help me just from a user perspective. -- John.
