[scribus] Problem with "first line offset"

[pezcurrel]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:47:32 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
wrote:

>On 1/8/19 4:47 PM, pezcurrel wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 22:12:21 +0100 ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org>
>> wrote:
>>   
>>> On 08.01.2019 01:11, pezcurrel wrote:  
>>>> Anyway I think it should be possible to do it for multiple selected
>>>> text frames from within scribus. What is the most appropriate place
>>>> to make-discuss feature suggestions?    
>>>
>>>
>>> If you do create this feature request, please let us know the
>>> #number or the link.  
>> 
>> https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15530
>>   
>
>There is a kludgey way of simulating first line offset of font ascent,
>using a script which sets the top distance. For example, I noted that
>for a 12-point font, the font ascent setting moves the first line down
>about 1.8 points.
>
>So the commands for this would be:
>
>    scribus.setTextDistances(0,0,1.8,0)
>    scribus.moveObject(1,1)
>    scribus.moveObject(-1,-1)
>
>The moveObject commands get around a redrawing issue, where the top
>distance gets set, but the screen doesn't show the text having moved.
>You could save the file, then reload it, or manually move the
>frame(s), and this is what these Scripter commands do (and it works).
>
>Probably for your instance, you would add to the script features that
>would select all frames, then sift out the text frames to do this
>operation on, one by one.

Thank you very much, but I'd rather go the sed/search&replace xml way,
since I know nothing about scribus scripting.
Anyway, again eventually I choosed to use an old quark xpress for the
work I'm doing. Every time I have to do DTP (that's very seldom, and
always for books), I try first using scribus, and even this time, at
the end of this trial, I choosed to use xpress. Though I find scribus
got really a lot better since last time I tried it, those three issuses
I reported on scribus bug tracker...

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15528
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15529
https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15530

...are still keeping me from using it.
I'll try again next time, since I'd love to use scribus, and xpress
is one of the few reasons I still (very rarely) use an old windows xp
running on virtualbox under arch linux.

Cheers