Hi, new to the list, new to Scribus. I have been watching the video tutorials 
and reading pages of text about using this crafty tool, but some things just 
are not adding up, and I seem to be looking in the wrong places. So here I am, 
with questions no doubt asked hundreds of times before...

First, how do I get a simple flowing text? I mean this like text in a word 
processor like OpenOffice Writer or MS Word: I put in a text, and it just 
continues across the pages? Currently, I need to put a fullsize textbox into 
every page (by hand, no less) and connect them to get a continued text that 
takes up multiple pages. With fifty pages of text, that is not very practical.

Second, I've gone through the Table of Content tutorials, but they look 
insanely complex to me. In both OO Writer and MS Word, a ToC is made by pushing 
a button, and it collects the headers you have. It seems to me there must be a 
way to simply have Scribus check where in the document a certain 'header' style 
is used, and insert all of those automatically (and I assume there is a way it 
automatically makes them links, too?). Also, how do I do a ToC where different 
levels of headers have their own styles? For example, Header 1 type titles are 
bold, Header 2 titles (subsections of the 1s) are italic.

I hope someone can answer these things. The people at the OpenOffice forums 
tell me my expanding layout needs are better met by Scribus than by Writer, so 
I hope to find a lot of neat and efficient ways to use it. I am just tripping 
over newbie problems, it seems :(

Cheers,
Henry!

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