2011/11/28 john Culleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:John@wexfordpress.com">John@wexfordpress.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:04:27 +0000<br>
Peter Etheridge <<a href="mailto:peter@eastbridge.plus.com">peter@eastbridge.plus.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Louis,<br>
><br>
> Thanks for your prompt reply. Looks as if I'm stuck with it.<br>
><br>
> Pete<br>
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</div>As previously suggested two identical frames side by side work,<br>
one ragged right and the other ragged left.<br>
Another solution is one frame with all information ragged right. Each<br>
line is a separate paragraph. In the story editor on each line<br>
highlight the price and shift it to ragged left by clicking on the<br>
ragged left icon.<br>
<br>
Finally, TeX has a \ldots tag that takes up all the extra space<br>
and fills it with dot leaders. The code is:<br>
Fried Fish\ldots $4.95<br>
The TeX output could then be imported as a pdf file into your<br>
Scribus page.<br>
<br>
None of these require tabs.<br></blockquote><div><br>Here is what the .sla looks like when a paragraph and a character style are applied to 4 strings of text, all being entries of a menu for the sake of that example.<br>
<br> <para PARENT="Dish"/><br> <ITEXT CH="Dish one"/><br> <tab/><br> <ITEXT CPARENT="Price" CH="$12"/><br> <para PARENT="Dish"/><br>
<ITEXT CH="Dish Two"/><br> <tab/><br> <ITEXT CPARENT="Price" CH="$15"/><br> <para PARENT="Dish"/><br> <ITEXT CH="Dish Three"/><br>
<tab/><br> <ITEXT CPARENT="Price" CH="$18"/><br> <para PARENT="Dish"/><br> <ITEXT CH="Dish Four"/><br> <tab/><br>
<ITEXT CPARENT="Price" CH="$24"/><br> <trail PARENT="Dish"/><br> <PageItemAttributes/><br><br>Given the paragraph style set with a right tabulator on which the price will align (so all units aligned properly), this will end up with text properly set, with a dish name at the left of the text frame, aligned left, and the corresponding price aligned on the right hand side on the tab stop set value (not the frame).<br>
<br>Isolating the portions of text that are actually "code" to Scribus (and that are repeated here 4 times but could be repeated as many times as needed), from the data "dish" and "price" it should not be difficult to produce a concatenated text that would gather the necessary code for Scribus to understand and the data from a Menu database. Easy no?<br>
<br>Simply put, edit the .sla file and end up with a predictable result without too much fuss, mouse clicks and heavy manipulations.<br><br>Louis <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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