Is it possible to anchor a ruled line or any other object (drawing or bitmap image) to a paragraph?
StevenD On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:14 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote: > On Mon, 4 May 2009 15:26:37 -0400 > Jeffrey Silverman <jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com> dijo: > > > You can (and should, and probably are required to, to get anything > > done in Scribus) use Paragraph Styles. I don't know, though, if you > > can independently style the borders for a single paragraph. > > Yeah, I've been using paragraph styles as my main formatting tool for > 20 years. It's not only faster, it enforces consistency. Yet at the > same time paragraph styles do not hamper creativity because you can > either override them or just create a new one. > > > Nope, I can't find it. At least not quickly. You can create an > > indented paragraph style, but not style borders around the paragraph. > > > > I'll bet Scribus 1.3.5svn lets you do it, though... > > Well, I am using 1.3.5svn, April 19, and I can't find it either. > > One thing I can think of is to create an indented paragraph style, > then place a line on top of the text frame. By zooming in I can eyeball > it well enough to get the line positioned properly with respect to the > paragraph. But this workaround really sucks because the line won't move > with the text. I know, I know - place the line after I'm through > editing the text. But that doesn't work for me because "editing the > text" is never completely finished. Even a year from now I'll discover > a line that needs to be rewritten. Bear in mind that I do short run > textbook publishing, so I'm always slipstreaming changes into a book > every few hundred copies. > > Since it's just one paragraph at a time that I need the change bar on I > thought of just hitting enter at the end of each line (no text wrap) > and then putting the pipe character at the beginning of each line. By > finagling the size and other attributes of the pipe character I could > simulate a solid line to the left of the paragraph. Pretty > unprofessional, but at least the "change bar" would move with the > paragraph. > > On a brighter note, searching all over for how to create a change bar > has made me find a bunch of other features that I was unaware of. This > is my first big Scribus project, so I have a lot to learn. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090504/8b21509d/attachment.htm>
