(walks up to microphone) Hi, My name is James King, and I am a Pagemaker user.
(group responds) Hi Lee! (but no longer, now that I've switched to Scribus) Ok, now that I've made my confession, I'll explain my situation. I made the switch to Scribus just recently, having originally used Pagemaker to typeset a piano method book. I am in the process of redoing my work (and improving on it) in Scribus. However, I find that when I work with the style sheets in the text editor, sometimes the changes don't come out right, and when I go to the properties menu, there is something different yet again. I am expending a lot of effort with the text, and wonder if I'm doing something wrong regarding setting everything up correctly. Always, when I go to edit text, the style will have a plus sign after it, even if nothing was changed from the original style. I will select the style again, refresh the text window (of course there are no changes in appearance) but then when I go back to check, there's that plus sign again, which leads me to think that something changed somewhere. Sometimes, if I switch between properties and the style edit, text will flip between different fonts , or if I change font sizes within properties to make the font smaller so everything fits in the box, only the text that was originally displaying in the box gets sized down. The remainder is at the old size. If people want to see the original piano book (so one can see what I'm attempting to recreate in Scribus), it's located at http:// download.yousendit.com/32ED8FB23321760F for the next 7 days or 100 downloads, whichever comes first. I released it under the GNU FDL, so I thought that reconstructing (and improving) the original in Scribus might help stimulate open source work on the project. Thanks in advance for everyone's help. I'm excited about using Scribus. James King
