mike a ?crit : > merci beaucoup mon ami Plaisir! > > thanks for your help, i will experiment ...
Good! > > your reply triggered another question; how do i use special characters, like > 'accent' marks over vowels, and tilde's over 'n' for some spanish words? I am responding to the list since I guess this question and the answer can be of interest to others. I assume you ask how to access those characters. Right? Insert > Glyph will pop up a dialog where you can pick any of the available glyphs for the font you are using. HTH Louis > > mike > > > > > --- On Sun, 7/27/08, Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> > wrote: > >> From: Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> >> Subject: Re: [scribus] line spacing >> To: migueltrucha at yahoo.com, "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at >> lists.scribus.info> >> Date: Sunday, July 27, 2008, 7:54 AM >> mike a ?crit : >>> not to change the subject, but can anyone tell me how >> to change the spacing between lines in scribus? i think >> this used to be know as the 'letting' >> >> Hi Mike, >> >> "Leading" is the other word for >> "linespacing". >> >> When you set the values for text in the Properties Palette >>> Text tab, >> it?s possible to set only one linespacing value per text >> frame. >> >> For more flexibility regarding linespacing, you have to >> create paragraph >> stylesheet in Edit > Paragraph Styles... Scribus then >> allows the use of >> as many linepacing values as you want ? per paragraph ? >> in one single >> text frame, provided you have set a paragraph stylesheet >> for each, and >> have applied it through the Story Editor. >> >> As you may have found already, you have 3 options for >> linespacing (in >> the PP and in the Paragraph Style... create dialog): >> >> [Auto] >> [Fixed] >> [Lock to baseline grid] >> >> To see those options, you have to keep your mouse button >> clicked on the >> icon to see a well-hidden pull-down menu. [Some of us here >> on this list >> pray for this hidden-menu to be replaced by something more >> obvious for >> users!!! You may pray with us!!! :-) ] >> >> [Auto linespacing] is based on a percentage value of the >> typesize you >> are using. This percentage has to be set in the Preference >>> Typography. >> The default is 20%. This means that for a typesize of 10 >> pts, you?ll get >> an auto linespacing of 12 pts. As you increase or decrease >> your >> typesize, the leading value will increase or decrease by >> this >> percentage. The auto percentage can be changed either in >> the Prefs (with >> no document open) and will affect all further documents or >> it can be >> modified at any time in the Edit > Document Settings >>> Typography (the >> dialogs are identical) and will affect only the current >> document. >> Autolinespacing is quick but remember that a change in the >> percentage >> will affect all the paragraph to which this type of >> linespacing was used. >> >> [Fixed] is just that: fixed. You set a value for >> linespacing and this >> value will not change when you increase or decrease the >> typesize. >> >> [Lock to baseline grid] will not care about the font size >> either. You >> need to go to the Preferences, in the Guides section. There >> at the >> bottom right you?ll see 2 fields. One is the grid itself, >> so the >> linespacing value, and the other is the offset, where it >> will start. >> This is mostly used in multicolumns documents where you >> want to see all >> the lines properly aligned from one column to another, >> especially if you >> have objects such as images that break the text flow here >> and there in >> your layout. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Louis >> >>> working on a business card and there is too much space >> between the lines as default ... >>> thanks guys >>> >>> mike
