Craig Bradney wrote: > On Saturday 24 February 2007 08:50:35 John Beale wrote: > >> I am a relative newcomer to Scribus. I have looked but I cannot figure this >> out from the online help files. I am using Scribus 1.3.3.7 on Windows XP. >> >> I am designing a DVD jacket cover. On the back I must fit a large amount of >> text into a small space, and I need multiple font weights on one single >> line. It is the sort you have probably seen on movie posters: >> >> producer PRODUCER NAME director DIRECTOR NAME composer COMPOSER NAME >> >> ...and so forth. I put the plain text into the "story editor" window but >> the "Style" selector boxes in the left-hand column seem to apply to an >> entire line of text at once. In this case, I need to alternate styles for >> almost every word on a line. >> >> I seem to be able to do this by highlighting a single word and choosing a >> new font (eg. Arial Narrow Regular vs. Arial Bold) but there is no visual >> confirmation of this in the edit window, and when I place the cursor within >> the word, the selection box does not show the correct font for that word. >> > > You should see the font selector in the toolbar change when you cursor over > the text. Use the selector on the left to change the whole paragraph and the > selectors on the toollbars afterwards. What you are wanting to do is > certainly possible. > The other possible way to do this is with Edit Contents of Frame mode http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Toolbars#Toolbar_Icons:_Modify_Objects where in the main window you can highlight selections, then modify text features.
Greg
