[Scribus] keyboard shortcuts in Story Editor

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Fri Oct 6 01:50:14 CEST 2006


Axel Bojer wrote:
> Gregory Pittman skrev:
>   
>> Something I just discovered today, using 1.3.3.3 (Linux) was that, even 
>> though I can set a keyboard shortcut for an em-dash, it will not work in 
>> Story Editor, though it does work in Edit Contents mode on the main 
>> screen. Since I've never tried this before, I don't know if it's a 
>> feature that was lost or never existed, yet seems intuitively that it 
>> should be there.
>>
>> I also wondered if there should be what we might call a "smart" shortcut 
>> insertion with this, so that in addition to using a shortcut to make the 
>> em-dash it will also add a following space. I'm not sure I can think of 
>> a situation where I wouldn't want a space after an em-dash.
>>
>> Greg
>>     
>
> Perhaps not ... but after an n-dash I would :-)
> Anyway, it may be unwise to remove flexibility just because it seems to 
> fit many cases. What about other languages? Could it be an option?
>   
At any rate, the main thing I was mentioning is that keyboard shortcuts 
(for insertion of characters) doesn't work in Story Editor.

Greg



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