On Friday 18 February 2005 15:50, telkomsa3036 at telkomsa.net wrote: > >> 1. Layers were indicated as frames in different colors around the > >> text/image boxes. > > > > cute. i like it. > > > >> 2. With a special key you could call a small input dialog, just 1 line > >> or so, for invoking special formatting codes. I think my friend > >> explained to me that these were the codes for a machine previously used > >> for layouting in the printing world (Linotype???). Anyway, formatting > >> was made ridiculously fast by just typing some codes, and the whole > >> paragraph or text was re-alined. (He admitted that hardly anyone from > >> the DTP world knew these codes anymore and he considered himself kinda > >> dinosaur still using them...) > > > > hey, now that could be useful... why should an exeprienced user have to > > point and clik all paragraph styles, when they get wirtten as text in the > > and anyway... one could even have history / presets of such 'lines'... > > i like it. > > > > regards, bostjan > > If I, as a quiet lurker, may add my tuppence here: > > In Tera IT's GN3 (GoodNews 3) newspaper production system on which I earn > my daily bread you don't even have to call an input dialog. You simply use > a function key to insert a command which shows up as >< in magenta or > colour of user's choice and you insert the formatting codes between the > > and the <. > > A typical initial set of coding at the start of the story might look > something like this: >f 131<>h 8.7<>ld 9<>paj<>ql<>is 12<>ehyp > 1<>global<>is< ... calling for font no 131, font size 8.7pt, leading 9pt, > justify both margins, setting last line left, indent first line 12pt and > enable hyphenation. The global command, of course means that this style > will be followed in each succeeding par unless countermanded within a par > by new code. In this case, following the global command is >is< which, for > the intro par, countermands the 12pt first line indent. This set of > commands, if they constitute the publication's default body text style, > will usually be bundled into a single style code called, typically, > > >text<, saving the hassle of keying in the full set of commands. > > Rolf's friend is right ... it does make formatting ridiculously fast > compared to having to point and click on paragraph styles, as Bostjan > points out. I play around with DTP at home (hoping soon to switch to > Scribus!) and I find the point and clck method rather tiresome after a day > at work zapping in commands all over the show to bend the type to my will > > :>)
This would be entirely possible in Scribus. All we need is a "language" to do it in, however the hotkeys I'm working on will go a little way to help this stuff without it. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050218/c8f3913c/attachment.pgp
