[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2

[ZASKE Martin]

Dear Håkan,

each job its tool:

For calculations and admin, nothing "wrong" with Calc. But for DTP we
want total control of Font-Size, Font-colours, kerning options,
line-spacing, underlying colours, different transparencies for
print-on-paper versus web-output, line-styles for the frames. So we are
using Scribus.

Good luck with using Calc for styling precise output.

And we want a document, which is "transparent" for our entire team, and
where we can fix small details to the last minute (sometimes when
recording the audio for a given page, we still realize that a tiny typo
has crept into our document; so if the entire document "is Scribus" then
the layouter can just go in and fix it).

You propose to make a crossword puzzle in LibreOffice Calc and then
what? Export to bitmap? Export to PDF or eps? Import as an "image"? If
you have established a well working work-flow, you are welcome to share it.


So far, I know what I want to do and I have done it this morning and it
is working fine. I was just asking a question about making an entire
batch of many tab stops in Scribus.

greetings,

Martin




On 02.10.2017 13:21, Håkan Löfgren wrote:
> Hello Martin!
> 
> Re: Crossword Puzzle
> 
> What's wrong with Excel or Open Office Calc for making crossword puzzles? There you will get the grid and the tabs automatically. Then you import it into Scribus. Voila!
> 
> Regards
> Håkan Löfgren
> 
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> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 12:19:06 +0100
> From: ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org><mailto:zm at revue-gugu.org>
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Subject: [scribus] Making a Crossword Puzzle
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> Hi List,
> 
> for our magazine, I am doing the layout for a crossword puzzle at the
> moment - or rather a word-grid, where the children will search certain
> key words.
> 
> I have done this a few times in the past, and what works best for
> Scribus, is when I am using an array of tabs of type "Centre" because
> all our characters are of different width of course, some positions in
> our alphabet even are digraphs like GB or SH (I have hacked a font, so
> no problem in that area).
> 
> ====================================
> Now I am looking for the way to seed the Scribus Style Manager Window
> for my word-grid with an entire batch of 17 new tab stops, all of type
> "Centre" and each 10,23 mm from the previous one.
> ====================================
> 
> 
> For now - and inspired by a recent mail from JLuc - I have made a
> workaround/hack:
> 
> I prepared a spreadsheet and calculated all my needed positions and have
> copied and pasted my tab-lines in my mydocument.sla like this:
> 
>             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="28.9984251968504" Fill=""/>
>             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="57.9968503937008" Fill=""/>
>             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="86.9952755906" Fill=""/>
>             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="115.9937007874" Fill=""/>
>             <Tabs Type="4" Pos="144.9921259843" Fill=""/>
> 
> Type "4" means "centre"
> 
> 
> I believe I had seen in the past a way how to quickly seed all needed
> tab stops, if they are spaced with equal distances.
> 
> Maybe I am wrong, maybe I had seen that in LibreOffice or in CorelDraw.
> 
> 
> 
> If it does not exist, would other users also see that as a useful new
> feature? A mini dialogue to tell Scribus, similar to the very useful
> new-frame dialogue:
> 
> "For this style, I would like n new tab stops, beginning at x mm and
> spaced by y mm and of type z."
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> PS: Scribus is awesome for jobs like making word grids, because I have
> total control over my text-frame: vertical alignment, distances from my
> frame, background colour, font-size, font, line-spacing, etc. So the
> grid is exactly what I want (just making the tabs was boring and
> entering them manually was a risk of typos).
> 
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