[Scribus] changing text in a text box - and a bug

[Craig Bradney]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:14, ruth moulton wrote:
>   hey, since i mailed this i've been playing around with properties, very 
> nifty. and i think i've found the answers to the help i needed, its really 
> not that difficult at all to copy the different text into its own box, fiddle 
> with its style and properties and superimpose it over the original text.
> 
> found out how to select a set of frames, several inside one, to move them all 
> together. is there a way to put a permanent 'group' setting on the collection 
> so if i move the outer frame i don't have to remember to reselect ?

right click, group, or Item menu, Group (for those with 2nd/3rd button
challanged mice :) )

> > when i have imported some text into a box i'm going to want to change the
> > style of some of the words, maybe for a different colour, maybe to make it
> > italic or bold or even to use mixed fonts within one piece of text, i can't
> > see how to do this ? - when i've selected some words in the text box the
> > style menu item is greyed out so i can't use it.

select the text and set it on the properties palette. if its a per
paragraph thing, then the use of paragraph styles also applies.

Craig
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