On 01/10/2011 05:35 AM, Tony Hamilton wrote: > > This sequence gives me the option of showing a line on any or all of the > 4 sides of the rectangle which forms a boundary or border to the elected > paragraph. For example, If I choose to use a visible continuous line of > 0.05 pt width on the top boundary of the paragraph then I create the > appearance of the top line of text in the paragraph as having been > 'overlined', rather than underlined. In my opinion this looks an > attractive way of separating this para. from the preceding one. > > If I create this appearance while defining or modifying a style in OO > Write, I can now very quickly apply the effect of para. separator at > will throughout my document by applying that style to any para. I > select. > > I want to do the same thing in Scribus, but can find no way of doing > it. > > Creating gaps is not what I want - I want a line. > > Adding an in-line graphic is not satisfactory: using a style means > (almost) a 1 click amount of work to create the para. separators, via > styles. To do it any other way is to ignore the whole concept of styles. > And I'm not really interested in creating some sort of 'macro' > (script ?) which would allow a productivity gain. For a start there is > then no real connection between the paragraph and the line above it.
I think you don't understand an inline graphic. Make a horizontal line anywhere on the page. Copy it (Ctrl+C), then in a text frame in Edit Contents mode, paste the line (Ctrl+V -- something like one click AFAICT). You paste it just like a character, and it stays in place just like a line of text. You can left-justify, center, or right-justify, just like text. This is also the principle in the fancy bullets video, of pasting a small graphic like a text character. The main problem with bullets is that they're not on a keyboard. What the video shows is using other characters then a search and replace method to change them. Greg PS I think if you overuse these between paragraph separators, it just interferes with the reading of the text.
