On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:45:16 +0100 "Davies, Stephen" <dragoman at talktalk.net> wrote:
> Am enjoying betting to grips with Scribus: however, I have a couple > of queries. can anybody help? > > 1: Is there a way of starting page numbers part-way into a > publication? At present I have made a master-page for prelims which > has no page numbers. However, the first page which bears a number > appears as '3', not '1', which I would have preferred. > > 2: I don't seem able to find a way of 'keeping lines together', in > order to prevent a paragraph breaking across pages. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Stephen > These are two of the reasons I still use TeX for booklength documents. But try this on for size: 1. Create Document a for the frontmatter. 2. Using the same specs except for page numbers create document b starting with page one. Merge the two pdfs with your favorite merge program. Keeping paragraphs from breaking across page boundaries is probably going to be a manual operation. But it isn't really necessary. All you really need to look out for are widows and orphans. There is a single character you can access in the Story Editor that is found here: Insert->space-> Frame break. That forces a new page. Both solutions are ugly but they work. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
