Bullet and numbering issue

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mgrajesh

First , Thank you for this awesome Software. I used it for first time and impressed lot. From Adobe page maker to Affinity Publisher, i have used many publishing software. But never saw a free open source, Indic language supportive  and awesome software like this!!

ok, I have two issues am facing,

Ist as you can see in the attachment, when i try to add numbering to my list, after 9, i get "extra push" to 10 and it continues, Dont know how to solve it.

2nd issue is with e Pub plugin, i saw a plugin it github which simply convert ".sil" file to simple e pub, which can later edit with any e pub editing software, as am a graphic designer, i am not familier with coding or development.

Could you tell me step by step, how i could install it on my mac?

3rd issue, is am on a project to digitalise old books, by re publishing , epub, pdf form. to give authentic feel i use old malayalam lipi font like Anjali oild lipi font. You can  Download it it here. The issue is the Glyph doesn't show full charaters. It display only assigned characters, But its an old style font which use many characters which not using in modern lipi fonts. Is there is any way i could see all in glyph?

thank you so much

Nermander

The first issue I assume is related to tab stops.

mgrajesh

i don't see any option to set that


prcek

Quote from: Nermander on August 15, 2025, 12:03:13 PMThe first issue I assume is related to tab stops.

It is not. I've tried it in 1.6.4

Paragraph numbering can have a offset set, which is clearly computed from the end of number.
It can also have prefix/suffix, a Tab character cannot be inserted there from keyboard as it switches field, but can be copy&pasted into it. In that case zero width is used for it and it ignores paragraph tabulator settings unfortunately.

I can imagine some workaround but didn't find any solution.

<rant>I hate that mouse wheel on number input box with those small arrows Up/Down increases/decreases value and then scrolls content of window so I mess several of values by slight turn</rant>
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Any job looks easy until you try doing it yourself.

AdmFubar

Tabs stops are a solution. It will be a bit tedious to insert tabs where needed. but numbered lists are generally short.
Using Scribus1.6.1, 1.7.0 openSUSE 15.6
Advanced hobbyist

Nermander

Ok, I have tested and yes, it seems as if Scribus (at least 1.6.4 which is the only 1.6 version I have installed) does not insert a tab after the number (there is only an option to add a fixed distance), but you can get the same effect by inserting a tab at the start of each line and then apply the numbered list.

a.l.e


mgrajesh


Nermander

The best solution at the moment is to manually add a tab at the start of each line before applying the numbering. I tried it yesterday and it work well.

Or well, you can probably insert the tabs after applying the numbering too. But it has to be manually added (so for example for a ToC it may not be possible to do).

Unless there is a way to enter a tab as number suffix? I did try "^t" (tabs in MS Word) and "\t" but they did not seem to work, but I did not try to copy and paste from a tab entered in a text frame.

a.l.e

Well, in my eyes the the best solution is:

- Create a "list" paragraph style with hanging indent and a tab at the right place.
- Use it to create your list and add your endashes manually at the start of each list item (you can even type -- and later replace it to an endahs)

No hassle, just works.

The only case where automatic bullets are IMO really useful: when importing text from a source that uses automatic bullet lists (of course, in that case, you don't want to redo the work manually)

In all other cases, the gains are mostly marginal.

But, yes, I'm almost sure that I started using word at a time when there were no bullet lists...

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Nermander

Now I think you are talking about something completely different? The discussion was, as far as I understand, about lack of alignment of the text in numbered lists, not bullet lists.

mgrajesh

Quote from: Nermander on August 17, 2025, 08:22:40 AMThe best solution at the moment is to manually add a tab at the start of each line before applying the numbering. I tried it yesterday and it work well.

Or well, you can probably insert the tabs after applying the numbering too. But it has to be manually added (so for example for a ToC it may not be possible to do).

Unless there is a way to enter a tab as number suffix? I did try "^t" (tabs in MS Word) and "\t" but they did not seem to work, but I did not try to copy and paste from a tab entered in a text frame.

i think this will solve my first issue.. thankx  :D

mgrajesh

can you help me to install the plugin? in mac? 

a.l.e

No plugin needed.

As I wrote above, the best option for you is probably to create a paragraph style with the hanging indent and use that, with manual dash / bullet, correct tab stop, and a sane hanging indent.