On 06/03/2011 02:06 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> On 06/03/2011 10:29 AM, St?phanie Vilayphiou wrote: >> >>> I also think Story Editor is a key function. >>> It is not only about copying/pasting text, but it is about editing >>> afterwards. It is very convenient to edit. You don't have to zoom in/out >>> to edit very small captions for example. Or in my latest work, I had >>> text upside/down, so Story Editor is perfect for that. Although it >>> misses a lot of features present in the Properties palette, so a lot of >>> stuff is impossible to do directly in there, i.e. applying a character >>> style (absolutely necessary!). >>> please don't kill it! >>> >> >> I don't know that there is an effort to simply kill the SE. >> It's more of a recognition of SE's limitations that is the source of >> trouble. >> >> I do agree that some sort in bulk simple editing is needed. Perhaps one >> answer might come from a free-standing plain text editor that can import >> from/save to the document, called up like Gimp is called up, with some sort >> of tags to denote things like paragraph and character styles. >> >> At the moment what we have is a mix of those who don't use and recommend to >> others not to use SE, and those who still use it in spite of its >> shortcomings. >> >> Greg >> >> > I think it's been asked here before, but what is the problem with the Style > Editor co-existing with the in frame editing capability? I can see > advantages to both methods of composing and editing depending on what task I > am doing at the moment. I recognize that my rather repetitious paragraph > style formatted magazine may not be representative of the work many other > Scribus users do, but the Scribus does tend to try to accommodate all types > of DTP, it seems. Therefore, with a few updates, the Story Editor would > seem to fill its role quite nicely. I fail to see the major problems that > necessitate an external editor and fear the issues that potential editor > might bring about.
Don't take what I said too seriously. It's mostly that some feel the SE is quite useless for their needs (I still find it useful). So there is this push to "rewrite" the SE -- but to what? Greg
