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#91
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 17, 2025, 09:49:45 AM
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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#92
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by Nermander - August 17, 2025, 08:22:40 AM
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.
#93
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by mgrajesh - August 17, 2025, 07:00:47 AM
so no hope?  at-least for now?
#94
Text and Typography / Re: Scribus rejecting some ins...
Last post by garydale - August 16, 2025, 03:35:22 PM
Further to above, I have gone back and edited the character style that used the font family. It had no impact. I also have opened the document in Scribus and manually selected the correct font for a section of text but again, it left it unchanged.

Also, when I used Dolphin to preview the fonts (navigate to /user/local/share/fonts then hover over the various fonts), the fonts display correctly. While I was at it, I verified that the fonts weren't located in /usr/share/fonts as well. My .local/share/fonts folder is empty.
#95
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by a.l.e - August 16, 2025, 11:21:24 AM
sadly, it's a known issue...

https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17243
#96
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by Nermander - August 16, 2025, 07:58:37 AM
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.
#97
Text and Typography / [SOLVED] Scribus rejecting som...
Last post by garydale - August 16, 2025, 02:58:07 AM
I recently did a fresh install of Debian 13 to try to fix a problem. Now it's left me with more problems. One in particular is with opentype fonts. I have one font family in particular that is causing me problems in the .sla file I'm working on right now.

I started the file months ago and had no problems with it. However, post-reinstall, it's asking me to substitute some fonts that are used in the file. I can substitute them with themslelves - Scribus sees them in the system - but when I do, I don't actually get them in the document. e.g the serif italic font that should be displayed is replaced by a sans serif regular font.

I can use the font family in other programs (e.g. LibreOffice writer) and it shows up. I've verified the font file permissions right the way down the directory tree. And I've done an fc-cache multiple times along with several reboots. The problem persists.

How can I fix this?
#98
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by AdmFubar - August 16, 2025, 12:58:06 AM
Tabs stops are a solution. It will be a bit tedious to insert tabs where needed. but numbered lists are generally short.
#99
Beginner Talk / Re: Bullet and numbering issue
Last post by prcek - August 15, 2025, 11:49:00 PM
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>