Dear H?kan, each job its tool:
For calculations and admin, nothing "wrong" with Calc. But for DTP we want total control of Font-Size, Font-colours, kerning options, line-spacing, underlying colours, different transparencies for print-on-paper versus web-output, line-styles for the frames. So we are using Scribus. Good luck with using Calc for styling precise output. And we want a document, which is "transparent" for our entire team, and where we can fix small details to the last minute (sometimes when recording the audio for a given page, we still realize that a tiny typo has crept into our document; so if the entire document "is Scribus" then the layouter can just go in and fix it). You propose to make a crossword puzzle in LibreOffice Calc and then what? Export to bitmap? Export to PDF or eps? Import as an "image"? If you have established a well working work-flow, you are welcome to share it. So far, I know what I want to do and I have done it this morning and it is working fine. I was just asking a question about making an entire batch of many tab stops in Scribus. greetings, Martin On 02.10.2017 13:21, H?kan L?fgren wrote: > Hello Martin! > > Re: Crossword Puzzle > > What's wrong with Excel or Open Office Calc for making crossword puzzles? > There you will get the grid and the tabs automatically. Then you import it > into Scribus. Voila! > > Regards > H?kan L?fgren > > Message: 6 > > Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 12:19:06 +0100 > From: ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org><mailto:zm at revue-gugu.org> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.net> > Subject: [scribus] Making a Crossword Puzzle > Message-ID: <bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at > revue-gugu.org><mailto:bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at revue-gugu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi List, > > for our magazine, I am doing the layout for a crossword puzzle at the > moment - or rather a word-grid, where the children will search certain > key words. > > I have done this a few times in the past, and what works best for > Scribus, is when I am using an array of tabs of type "Centre" because > all our characters are of different width of course, some positions in > our alphabet even are digraphs like GB or SH (I have hacked a font, so > no problem in that area). > > ==================================== > Now I am looking for the way to seed the Scribus Style Manager Window > for my word-grid with an entire batch of 17 new tab stops, all of type > "Centre" and each 10,23 mm from the previous one. > ==================================== > > > For now - and inspired by a recent mail from JLuc - I have made a > workaround/hack: > > I prepared a spreadsheet and calculated all my needed positions and have > copied and pasted my tab-lines in my mydocument.sla like this: > > <Tabs Type="4" Pos="28.9984251968504" Fill=""/> > <Tabs Type="4" Pos="57.9968503937008" Fill=""/> > <Tabs Type="4" Pos="86.9952755906" Fill=""/> > <Tabs Type="4" Pos="115.9937007874" Fill=""/> > <Tabs Type="4" Pos="144.9921259843" Fill=""/> > > Type "4" means "centre" > > > I believe I had seen in the past a way how to quickly seed all needed > tab stops, if they are spaced with equal distances. > > Maybe I am wrong, maybe I had seen that in LibreOffice or in CorelDraw. > > > > If it does not exist, would other users also see that as a useful new > feature? A mini dialogue to tell Scribus, similar to the very useful > new-frame dialogue: > > "For this style, I would like n new tab stops, beginning at x mm and > spaced by y mm and of type z." > > > Greetings, > > Martin > > > > PS: Scribus is awesome for jobs like making word grids, because I have > total control over my text-frame: vertical alignment, distances from my > frame, background colour, font-size, font, line-spacing, etc. So the > grid is exactly what I want (just making the tabs was boring and > entering them manually was a risk of typos). > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > En HTML-bilaga skiljdes ut... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20171002/5aee1fe2/attachment.html> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > > __________ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Version der Erkennungsroutine > 16175 (20171002) __________ > > E-Mail wurde gepr?ft mit ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
