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

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/01/2017 04:09 AM, Giovanni Bianchessi wrote:
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>> From: Giovanni Bianchessi <bgio at libero.it>
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>> 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>
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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
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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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Something which occurred to me is that you could use tabs (tabulators)
to accomplish the same thing as indentation, at least of the first line
of a paragraph. Tab distances are adjustable for a particular paragraph
style, and would not affect the text in any way.

Greg