On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:07:11AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:58 +0000, Riku Leino wrote: > > > You should also see "New". Click it. Then give name to your template edit > > it > > (draw a black square or something to the page) and click close. Now you can > > apply your just created "master page" to any of your document's pages by > > opening the page palette and dragging your template to the pages where you > > want to apply it. > > Note that you alter the template /with the templates palette open/ . > Closing the palette returns you to editing the page its self. I > personally find this behaviour rather confusing - perhaps some sort of > mode toggle in the palette would help.
Thanks for saying this. That really was the big confusion. While I didn't understand how everything was supposed to work, missing this got we totally lost. > Also, I find that calling the menu item Edit->Templates makes me expect > a dialog not a palette. I found that rather confusing. It's better in > 1.3 now that access to the palettes is all together in the menus. I have been trying stuff on 1.3 as well and I agree, this does make more sense here. > > "Append" will append "master pages" from another document. So it won't do > > anything if you don't have any master pages created in the doc from where > > you're appending. > > That's probably a candidate for a rename to 'Import...'. I think this whole process is a candidate for a "this is how you set up doing a book/magazine/newspaper/...". I am not ready to write it yet but, when I am, if it hasn't been done than I will do it. While I am not the person using Quark daily, I did figure it all out when we started doing magazines. I know the capabilities are there in Scribus so I am not the guy that should be confused. -- Phil Hughes, fyl at a42.com Phone: 505-713-5675 Aptdo. Postal 201, Esteli, Esteli, NICARAGUA
