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<div>Hi Ken. What sort of DTP software are you used to using? It could help for ideas to help you transition. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com> <br>Date: 21/03/2016 1:16 pm (GMT+09:30) <br>To: scribus@lists.scribus.info <br>Subject: Re: [scribus] Bullets and numbering <br><br>On 3/20/16 6:41 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:<br>> On 03/20/2016 07:59 PM, Ken Springer wrote:<br>>> On 3/1/16 10:50 AM, Ken Springer wrote:<br>>>> Scribus 1.4.6<br>>>><br>>>> Can it do bullets and numbering? Searching Help doesn't seem to come up<br>>>> with anything.<br>>><br>>> After 2-3 hours of trying to figure this out, I'm throwing in the towel.<br>>> LOL Going to give1.5.1 a try.<br>>><br>>> FWIW, I found the suggested video to be basically not worth my time. YMMV<br>>><br>>><br>><br>> Something I just discovered, and as far as I know it's not documented,<br>> is that 1.5.2svn and I presume 1.5.1 also have a sub-tab of the Text tab<br>> of Properties called Paragraph Effects. Inside this, you can choose to<br>> create bulleted and numbered lists.<br>><br>> After playing with it a bit, it seems to have some limitations, such as<br>> you can't have bulleted and numbered lists in the same frame (I think),<br>> but you can switch your bullet character to some other character without<br>> changing the bullets you've already created.<br>><br>> It's worth trying out to see if it works for your needs.<br><br>Before actually trying 1.5.1, I thought about making manual bullet line <br>and turning it into a style. Opened Style Manager, there were bullets <br>and numbering in the paragraph styles tab.<br><br>But I'm finding making styles work not to be all that intuitive. To be <br>frank, P1$$ed me off. Tomorrow, I'll decide whether to continue with <br>Scribus, or try something else. Simply running out of time and <br>enthusiasm here. :-(<br><br>I rarely find software to be this difficult for me to get a handle on. :-(<br><br><br>-- <br>Ken<br>Mac OS X 10.8.5<br>Firefox 44.0<br>Thunderbird 38.0.1<br>"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash<br> and it's gone!"<br><br><br>___<br>Scribus Mailing List: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>Edit your options or unsubscribe:<br>http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus<br>See also:<br>http://wiki.scribus.net<br>http://forums.scribus.net<br></body></html>