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

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Indentation works on pre-build v1.5.3 for OSX

---- On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:29:21 +0000 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote ---- 

On 10/01/2017 04:09 AM, Giovanni Bianchessi wrote: 
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>> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:18:55 +0200 
>> From: Giovanni Bianchessi <bgio at libero.it> 
>> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net 
>> Subject: [scribus] About text indenting in Scribus 1.5.(4 SVN) 
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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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>> Regards 
>> Giovanni Bianchessi 
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>> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:41:08 -0600 
>> From: Greg Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> 
>> To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net> 
>> 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 
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> 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". 
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Playing around with this in both 1.4.7svn and 1.5.4svn, tabulators seem 
to be broken, since I can't get them to work, either with creating a new 
style or modifying a pre-existing one. 
 
Greg 
 
I meant to say indentation, not tabulators... 
 
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