On Monday 10 January 2011 05:43:22 Tony Hamilton wrote: > .. that this is a long outstanding requirement. > > I found a video tutorial on how to use a graphic, via an in-line > image, to replace the single black bullet that is available, but > the video has 2 problems: > > 1. It runs faster than my ability to think, never mind watch the > video. I really have no idea what it is doing. > > 2. I'm really not going to do all that work just to create a better > looking bullet - assuming that I happen to have a suitable graphic, > which can be reduced in size and still have meaning afterwards, > lying around in my system. > > Is there a better documented way for doing this? I see claims that > many large books have been produced using Scribus. Did they all not > need to use bullets? How do other users get round this limitation? > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus MY solution: 1. Set up the page in TeX. I suggest the Context variant. 2. Import the page as a pdf file. Context offers several different bullet images. Just select the type of bullet once for each list or sublist within a list. Here is the complete file using right facing arrow heads (triangles): --------------------------------------- \font\rm bchr8r at 10pt %BitstreamCharter \starttext \rm \startitemize[4] \item Here is the first item \item Here is the second item ... \stopitemize \stoptext ------------------------------------ I just ran it and it works.
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