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#41
Layout Issues / Re: Struggling with the book t...
Last post by SciFi - June 13, 2025, 09:08:27 AM
Quote from: sersha on June 25, 2024, 06:17:25 AMYou should use Sections to structure the pagination. Here is a good video on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ792oi1rOk
Hope it helps!
Regards, S.

I'm so glad I clicked that Yt link, that answered a poopload of questions I was stumbling around for.
Thx
#42
Layout Issues / Alternating Left-Right page fo...
Last post by SciFi - June 13, 2025, 09:00:25 AM
I have created a .pdf attached of what I'm trying to find and I hope Scribus will allow me to create. I would like to create a template/theme where each left side page of a book has a column of text situated closer to the spine, thus its right side, and each right facing frame has its text on the spine side, or left of the page.

Like a program I had many years ago, I'd like to be able to drag an image over the pasted text and have the text automatically move aside and reformat the remaining text pages.

Please tell me it is so!
#44
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by ehbowen - June 11, 2025, 09:34:35 PM
A little bit better: Going by way of .docx. Still not getting the graphic separators; I can put them in by hand if I have to but I'd really like to find a way to automate that. Especially for my own books, I use a lot of "short cuts" when I write.

Screenshot 2025-06-11 143155.png

By The Way, what's this thing about Scribus putting auto-generated text frames all the way down at the bottom of the screen, not associated with any page?
#45
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by ehbowen - June 11, 2025, 08:55:34 PM
All right, a little bit better this time, but I still lose every bit of the formatting, including the small caps at the start of each section, the separators, the indents, and more. Might as well just start from square one with a raw .txt file. I was hoping to not have to duplicate efforts.

Screenshot 2025-06-11 135501.png
#46
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by ehbowen - June 11, 2025, 08:49:35 PM
I don't see how you're doing that, then, because this is what I get:

Screenshot 2025-06-11 134649.png
#47
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by a.l.e - June 11, 2025, 07:38:07 PM
I think that it should not be too hard to go from the .xhtml to an .html that can be read by Scribus...

I gave the first entry in

https://idpf.github.io/epub3-samples/30/samples.html

a try and downloaded

https://github.com/IDPF/epub3-samples/blob/main/30/accessible_epub_3/EPUB/ch01.xhtml

renamed it to .html, and Scribus could happily load it into a text frame.
#48
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by ehbowen - June 11, 2025, 07:22:37 PM
Unzipped, the body text is .xhtml files, which is "not an acceptable file format."

I tried going through PDF, but the PDF import is horribly messed up.
#49
General Discussion / Re: Scrivener Export to Scribu...
Last post by a.l.e - June 11, 2025, 06:58:16 PM
epubs are a bit more than zipped html files.

this means that you can unzip your epub file, look for the html files and import them into scribus.

but you will probably lose at least part of the formatting.

if the separator graphics will be kept, probably depends on the way you have put them into your epub.

please give it a try and report the result : - )
#50
Beginner Talk / Re: Premature text wrapping in...
Last post by a.l.e - June 11, 2025, 06:47:03 PM
in scribus, tables are not really "ready for production".

but for what i see, you should be able to create your layout with a few frames and rectangles behind it...