I have been using Scribus for a while now to produce the reference sheet for our Village News. This contains diary entries, useful phone numbers and train and bus timetables.
For the timetables I had settled on using Nimbus Mono. They are laid out in vertical columns with a single space between the columns. Until my last upgrade (I am now using 1.3.3.6 on Debian unstable) this worked well and all the numbers and the spaces were the same width. Now in spite of being a Mono font, the numbers are varying in width. The font is set through a style which is set on each line in the story editor. If I go into the Font Preview, the font is shown as a properly fixed pitch font. Is there any way to force this back to being fixed pitch (I have a deadline to meet and reworking it will have to be for the next edition). I realise that using fixed pitch fonts like this is not the right approach but I had not wanted to put in loads of tabs (it makes using the story editor very difficult as it uses 8 characters per tab, and there are so many columns that it would overflow even a full width window). The alternative would be to make each column (each train/bus journey) a frame on its own, which would also make it easier to add new journeys and as there are too many journeys per day for them all to fit on a line, move them from one line to another. But it would making minor changes more difficult as rather than opening up the whole timetable in one I would have to open each journey to edit it. Does anyone have any good models as to how to deal with kind of problem. David
