2007/5/30, Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com>: > > Henry Hartley wrote: > > > > Paulo Vieira wrote: > > >> I have 3 paragraphs (the text is incomplete). How can I give > > >> some more linespacing between the paragraphs while maintaining > > >> the "global" linespcacing? That is, I only want to separate a > > >> little more the lines that finish with "mundo" and begin with > > >> "A edicao" (and "Portugal"/"No Indie"). The rest should be as > > >> it is. > > > > Edit the style you use for your paragraph. In the upper right of > > the dialog there are five Distance settings. The two with up and > > down arrows and a paragraph symbol control leading and trailing > > space for paragraphs. > > > > >> Also, is there a way to save a paragraph style that will drop > > >> caps only at the first letter of the first paragraph? This > > >> should be a basic feature in scribus. > > > > This has been requested. I cannot say when it will be addressed. > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=204 > > I just downloaded the new version 1.3.4. The style editing dialog has > been changed but the controls for paragraph spacing are still there on > the Properties tag. For getting drop caps only in your initial > paragraph, do this (using whatever style names make sense to you): > > 1) Create a style "MyStyle-Initial" that you like and turn Drop > Caps on and set the way you want them. > 2) Create a second style "MyStyle-Subsequent" and set "Based On" > to the "MyStyle-Initial" style. For this style, make only one > change. Turn Drop Caps off. > 3) Make your initial paragraph "MyStyle-Initial" style and all the > subsequent paragraphs "MyStyle-Subsequent" style. > > If you change anything other than the drop cap settings in > "MyStyle-Initial" it will flow through to the "MyStyle-Subsequent" > style. It isn't as good as being able to specify drop caps on all > paragraphs or only the first paragraph but it's certainly better than > nothing.
Isn't this actually the (only) way to go? (and it's fine like it is) I wonder just how would anyone let the app know just what *is* a first paragraph without tagging it in some way. Applying a stylesheet takes a few secs. I know no other apps that would apply a drop cap (or btw any other settings) *only to first* paragraph... And if there are, this feature must have some drawbacks: you have to decide at one point when does that behavior starts, when it ends... Unless the software *understands* what's on your mind. Complicated. No? :) Louis -- > Henry > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070530/9a58d9f4/attachment.html
