Mill? Gr?zi Brian! This is exactly what I mean when I say that if I understood what question to ask I wouldn't have to ask it, I'd have found the answer.
You are obviously further on the learning curve than I am so you seem to be making progress. Me, I'm still spinning my wheels in the mire. Best, Allen Brian Astill wrote: > On Sunday 23 July 2006 23:39, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: >> I strongly suggest you try to read at >> least some of the documentation on docs.scribus.net and >> wiki.scribus.net. > > Look, that sounds like such sensible advice - but I found the wiki > quite unfathomable and the docs were neither comprehensible nor > searchable using terms simple souls like me understand. > > For example, I looked in the mailing list archive (which doesn't > appear to be searchable) for a thread/message about scribus-ng. > I looked in the wiki and in FAQs and docs. Two fruitless hours > later, I took a wild guess that scribus-ng would NOT overwrite > scribus and thank goodness that worked. > I now have 1.3.3.2 to play with and 1.2.5 as a stable platform to > make my newsletters with, while I learn about 1.3.3.2. > > That columns thingo - thanks for the where-to-find - is buried in > [properties - shape - distance of text - columns] which ain't > intuitive! > I also noticed a selection "Text flows around frame" which sounds > like wrapping around/through/whatever in a wordprocessor, which > is exactly what I was searching for recently in the docs/wiki and > couldn't find. I played around and it seems to work for an > image, but not (yet?) for a text frame. > > I guess what I'm trying to point out is that BandiPat's issues are > real for someone (like me) new to scribus and that - for us - the > online docs and wiki won't always help. >
