[scribus] Question

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Tue Sep 27 15:06:07 UTC 2011


hi john jason,
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:45:49 -0400
> Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com>  dijo:
>
>> On 09/27/2011 08:32 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>>> On 9/27/11 2:45 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:48:35 +0000 (UTC)
>>>> bkramer25 at comcast.net dijo:
>>>>
>>>>> I am composing a newsletter with Scribus. I have articles that are
>>>>> linked together with text boxes but they are on different pages. I
>>>>> want to know if there is a way to put a footer on the text box with
>>>>> "continued on page #" where # would be the page number of the
>>>>> linked box.
>>>> Scribus does not have such a feature, although I suspect it could be
>>>> scripted.
>>> i first wrote:
>>>
>>> "i don't think that it can be (easily) scripted..."
>>>
>>> but, hey, yes, now i think that it could be really easy to script
>>> it... there are just one or two thing to be checked and see if all
>>> the methods are in the scripter (and if they're not write a feature
>>> request against scripter 2)
>> This is something that eventually would be nice to have within Scribus
>> proper, by treating the '#' as a more useful variable.
> I have to agree heartily. It would be very useful. Every other layout
> program can do this. Tragically, I am unable to write code, but at
> least I can cheer the effort on.
>

you could write a list of variables needed... maybe separated by category...

if you would like to do it, we can ask the team if it would be helpful :-)

ciao
a.l.e



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