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#31
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.70 was not able ...
Last post by mottechy - June 24, 2025, 10:18:37 AM
Done.
Thank you for the tip!
#32
Linux / Re: Scribus 1.70 was not able ...
Last post by prcek - June 24, 2025, 10:12:02 AM
Don't have this version, but if I can suggest you might fill a bugreport and attach the XML file to it.
https://bugs.scribus.net/

Otherwise it will be just foretelling.
#33
Linux / Scribus 1.70 was not able to l...
Last post by mottechy - June 24, 2025, 08:51:53 AM
When I start Scribus 1.70 i get the following issue:

"Scribus was not able to load its preferences:
Failed to read prefs XML from "/home/(Usr)/.config/scribus/scribus170.rc": Unexpected ''. at line 121, col 39
Default settings will be loaded."
#34
Beginner Talk / Re: Multi-level Bullet List Bl...
Last post by thudthwacker - June 22, 2025, 05:29:04 PM
Thanks very, very much for going to so much effort to troubleshoot my problem.  Once you helped orient me as to what the various settings were doing (and demonstrate that they *do* work), I was able to find the core of my problem: I have spacing between the bullet glyph and the start of the text, and it was as large as some of my indents.  And some of the differences in bullet list indents were too small, compared to other set spacings.  Which threw everything off, as there wasn't enough space to the left of the first line to put the bullet glyph to the left of it.

Which is a very long ramble.  tl;dr: I have everything laid out so it looks right, and offer again my thanks for your assistance.
#35
Beginner Talk / Re: Multi-level Bullet List Bl...
Last post by prcek - June 22, 2025, 03:05:05 PM
For me in 1.6.4 it works in the way that whole paragraph indent moves paragraph to the right and first line indent defines distance from this position. So the first line is indented by (paragraph_indent + first_line_indent).

I've tried your settings (if I understand it correctly) and got a bad result for the second paragraph as well.



What works for me is leaving First line indent set to 0

#36
Beginner Talk / Re: Multi-level Bullet List Bl...
Last post by Nermander - June 22, 2025, 01:30:05 PM
I think what you want is negative indent for the first line?
#37
Beginner Talk / Multi-level Bullet List Blues
Last post by thudthwacker - June 22, 2025, 03:21:56 AM
I'm using Scribus 1.6.1 on Ubuntu, and am having a confusing time trying to set up a multi-level set of bullet lists.
I've set up 3 Paragraph styles:

The first is Bullet, based on Default Paragraph; under Properties>Tabs and Indentations, I've got 0 for first line indent and whole paragraph indent.  Paragraph Effects has "bullet list" and "auto-indent" checked.

Second level is Bullet-2, based on Bullet; Properties>Tabs and Indentations has 0.2 for first line indent and whole paragraph indent.  Paragraph Effects has "bullet list" and "auto-indent".

Third level is Bullet-3, based on Bullet-2; Properties>Tabs and Indentations has 0.3 for first line and whole paragraph.  Effects again has "bullet list" and "auto-indent".

When I set up a text frame with Bullet, Bullet-2, and Bullet-3 styles applied, Bullet comes out exactly as I would want: bullet glyph, and a text block next to it (multiple lines of text lined up so they all start in the same column).  Bullet-2 is indented from Bullet, but subsequent lines of text are lined up under the bullet glyph, rather than the start of the first line's text.  Bullet-3 is indented from Bullet-2, but subsequent lines of text line up to the *left* of the bullet glyph.

It seems pretty clear that I'm completely misunderstanding something, but I've got no clue what.  Any suggestions would be very much welcome.  (I'm fairly new to Scribus, in case that wasn't pretty obvious.)
#38
General Discussion / Wiki corrections
Last post by BookLover - June 22, 2025, 12:04:51 AM
As I just started on editing the wiki, I realised that there were many mistakes and things that aren't factual anymore. In fact, too many for me to simply find them all by myself. So if you're seeing this post and have found something that you think should be corrected, please post it here.

(p.s. We are talking about small mistakes, old or broken links and small fixes, not whole antiquated articles)

(p.p.s. I will try my best, but that doesn't mean it will be instantaneous)
#39
Layout Issues / Re: Help with image import and...
Last post by Carl_bach - June 19, 2025, 06:05:09 PM
Thanks for these.
#40
Beginner Talk / Re: Importing text with format...
Last post by Joop - June 19, 2025, 12:03:08 AM
Its probably very easy. As you know /b, /c and alike don't work in Scribus, its designed as a  real dtp package. This means that if you want a bold character or word with some font that you also must have the bold version of that font, if not than no bold. You have from Arial probably  the "full" set, this is the regular font, the bold font, the italics font and some more. Probably  you don't have the same with Times New Roman. Start Scribus. Go  to "File" > "Preferences..." > "Fonts". Be sure you have the "available fonts" tab. Now you can browse through the fonts in order  to see what is available on your system. You should have "Times New Roman Regular", "Times New Roman Bold", "Times New Roman Italic" and "Times New Roman Bold Italic". I'm not sure if I  deleted some, so there might be more. In front of the font names there is a tick-box, is it empty  or used. If empty then tick it.