[scribus] About text indenting in Scribus 1.5.(4 SVN)

[Giovanni Bianchessi]

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> From: Giovanni Bianchessi <bgio at libero.it>
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> In your opinion, which could be the best way to apply an indent to some lines in a long text?
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> Actually I find it difficult to do that.
> I tried to create a style, but it, in some cases, interferes with the "main" style of the text.
> With "interferes" I mean that if I have to change, in example, the font size, I have to "syncronize" the "main style" and the "indented style". 
> Is it possible in Scribus to create a style that ignores everything but consider only some parameters, in my case, the indents values.
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> Without using styles (the method I prefer) it seems to me impossible to apply text indents.
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> Giovanni Bianchessi
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> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:41:08 -0600
> From: Greg Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
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> Subject: Re: [scribus] About text indenting in Scribus 1.5.(4 SVN)
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> The best way by far is with paragraph styles.
> What you want to do is copy your basic style, then make mods for the indentation.
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> Greg

But usign paragraph styles, I think, all the attributes yet in the text imported (bolds, italics), would be lost.
Since in Scribus styles, actually, does not exists the possibility of setting a parameter as "as is, don't change".

Regards
Giovanni Bianchessi