Hi all. Once I was starting using Scribus I was wondering what is goal for character styles in form exists in Scribus now. Character styles works in Scribus in very different manner then in other DTP programs I know. The main difference is that in Scribus definition of character style is almost complete and while applying such style user changes almost all char attributes. Result is in layout with many different fonts you must prepare character styles for all fonts you plan to use with different e.g. color applied by character style.
In other DTP programs character styles rather define only CHANGE of some text parameters, only differences from original used style. So, if in character style user set ONLY color: red and apply that character style for chars then ONLY color of text changes. No font name, size or typographic parameters. ONLY color!!! Only character style working in that manner (applying only changed text parameters) has sense for me. Now this feature of Scribus is completely unusable for me (and I really dont use it). Now character styles in Scribus are kind of subset of paragraph style parameters - these ones applyable for single chars, not only for whole paragraphs. But what for they are from user point? cezaryece
