[scribus] First Line Offset

ZASKE Martin zm at revue-gugu.org
Fri Feb 2 18:35:52 UTC 2018


I know exactly what you are talking about.

When I made an entire book in 2017, I used a power-editor and went into
the XML and used some search and replace to change all First Line
Offsets. In our case I was lucky and could change ALL of them, so
setting it up only took a few minutes.


You should look out inside the document.sla for a


<PAGEOBJECT blablabla settings with your <StoryText> your stuff here

In the list of settings, look for FLOP.

I have marked the FLOP (maybe First Line Offset Property) in the example
below and you got the same options as in the GUI, starting with 0
(Maximum Ascent) so FLOP="2" should give you "Line spacing".


If you are comfortable with this type of mild hacking, you can get a lot
done in Scribus. Scribus is stable with such editing, I never had
unexpected side-effects so far. I would just recommend to close the
document in Scribus, while you edit the .sla file and to pull a
back-up-copy every time before you hack the XML.




<PAGEOBJECT XPOS="1061.4" YPOS="84.6" OwnPage="0" ItemID="156530640"
PTYPE="4" WIDTH="142.695488188976" HEIGHT="163.2" FRTYPE="0"
CLIPEDIT="0" PWIDTH="1" PLINEART="1" LOCALSCX="1" LOCALSCY="1"
LOCALX="0" LOCALY="0" LOCALROT="0" PICART="1" SCALETYPE="1" RATIO="1"
COLUMNS="1" COLGAP="0" AUTOTEXT="0" EXTRA="0" TEXTRA="0" BEXTRA="0"
REXTRA="0" VAlign="0" >>>>>>>FLOP="2"<<<<<<<< PLTSHOW="0" BASEOF="0"
textPathType="0" textPathFlipped="0" path="M0 0 L142.695 0 L142.695
163.2 L0 163.2 L0 0 Z" copath="M0 0 L142.695 0 L142.695 163.2 L0 163.2
L0 0 Z" gXpos="1061.4" gYpos="84.6" gWidth="0" gHeight="0" LAYER="0"
NEXTITEM="-1" BACKITEM="-1">
            <StoryText>...

hth,

Martin


On 25.01.2018 17:37, pezcurrel wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm working with Scribus 1.4.6 and I need to set all the First Line
> Offset for (many) text frames to "Line Spacing", but I can't find a
> quick way to do it, I just do it for each new text frame. It would be
> great to have a quicker method to do it. Maybe I'm missing something?
> 
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