Scribus and automatic paragraph numbering

[vadv55]

Please explain if Scribus supports automatic paragraph numbering (as in LibreOffice). Thanks in advance for the reply.

[toyotadesigner]

Yes it does. Paste some text, connect the text frames, press cmd+a (on a Mac, on Windows I don't know the shortcut to select all text), open the »Text Properties«, select the font face, scroll down a bit until you reach »Paragraph Effects« and select your desired settings. You can also define a Paragraph Style in Menu -> Edit -> Styles and apply the style to your selected text.



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[vadv55]

Thank you for the answer. As I understand it, I should use the Numbered List option. Is it possible, in addition, to assign numbers of different colors to text paragraphs, that is, so that each number has its own style?

[toyotadesigner]

Probably. Define a new »Character Style«, assign a specific type font and color, then select this new Character Style in the box at the bottom of the screenshot (-> Char Style)

[vadv55]

Thank you for your help. Indeed, everything turned out for me exactly as you advised.

[davidb]

I can't find the paragraph numbering option either in the properties box or when creating a new paragraph style. Is this feature version dependent? I am using V1.4.8 Windows 32 bit (I asked for 64 bit but it gave me the 32 bit version).

[toyotadesigner]

Do this:

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[davidb]

Looks like my version is different. I have fewer options in the Windows drop down and after following your instructions I still don't see any auto-numbering options in the properties window. See attached screenshots. Maybe the Windows version has fewer features.



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[toyotadesigner]

You should definitely read the manual or wiki!



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[davidb]

The paragraph effects tab does not appear for me under styles in 1.4.8 for Windows (I tried 32 and 64 bit versions on two different PCs). See attached screenshot.
However I have now installed 1.5.8 development version for Windows 64 bit and it does appear there (but not in the properties window), so provided that version is mainly bug free I can use that.

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[davidb]

It seems that numbered lists are only available in the 1.5.x development branch but not in the 1.4.8 current release version. I have checked 1.5.8 for Windows and 1.5.5 for Ubuntu and both have numbered lists. Haven't got a Mac but Toyotadesigner clearly has a Mac version which does have numbered lists.

[toyotadesigner]

Scribus 1.5.8 is a release version, which is also available for Windows.

If you want developer versions you might check this site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-svn/

I am currently running 1.5.8 for macOS.