Yes, I would agree with Teo here. Much easier to do layout by separating these elements.
The other thing to consider is keeping each Story Header-Story Body combination in its own text frame. Probably what you're seeing is the effect of having a newline character, followed by the column break character. Greg On 02/27/2010 09:28 AM, Teodor-Toma Silvestru Muntean wrote: > Hi Tom, I'm not sure I understand you exactly (I'm not curently english > speaker) but I think is better solution to have separate text frame for > heading and separate text-frame for body text (this is how I make my > layout's), in this way you will get more freedom to manipulate the elements. > Each text-frame with own style, each element can be moved/resized/etc without > modify others like head. > > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, maltmaster<tom at otsiningo.com> wrote: > > From: maltmaster<tom at otsiningo.com> > Subject: [scribus] Column break followed by change of style > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 3:58 PM > > > I am evaluating Scribus 1.3.5.1 on Win Vista for a newsletter I produce. I am > currently using Publisher 2000. > > I have two paragraph styles: (1) Story Heading and (2) Story Body. > > I wish to insert a column break after text in Story Body, followed by text > in Story Heading. If I start a new paragraph after the column break a blank > line is inserted at the top of the next column before the Story Heading > text. I wish that text to be at the top of the column. It looks like I need > a "null paragraph" for the new paragraph. > > I can upload a stripped-down example if necessary.
