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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0000204 | Scribus | Styles | public | 2004-01-24 18:27 | 2025-03-28 20:16 |
Reporter | Tsoots | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
Status | acknowledged | Resolution | open | ||
Summary | 0000204: Drop Cap only for the first paragraph | ||||
Description | Usually when I layout an article I only want Drop Cap in the first paragraph and have all other paragraphs without. At the moment It is quite simple to do this by first selecting a paragraph style without a drop cap then going to story editor and change the paragraph style to one that has a drop cap. Even it is this simple there are many possible things that may go wrong here. Most imortant is that one needs to use two paragraph styles and there may be some differences in them even there shouldn't. It would be nice if I could choose in Paragraph Style to have the drop cap only in the first paragraph and all other paragraphs in that text frame would follow all the other instructions from the style. This way I could drop out the story editor phase and avoid mistakes that I may have when playing around with two different paragraph styles. | ||||
Tags | dropcap | ||||
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Perhaps related to 0000363 ? |
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The ability to inherit styles and set "next styles" when applying things would take care of this. |
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Yes, but only if you typing. For imported text files you must apply it manually in Story Editor. Instead (or beside) I propose to add something like "paragraph effect" for drop caps with its icon near aligning icons in Properties Palette/Text. By icon we will only switch on/off Drop Cap for selected paragraphs, but settings for it should be in paragraph style as is now. Fast end efficient. |
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I encountered this issue in programmatically generating Scribus files from Docbook contents using XSLT processing. I maintain the paragraph style defined in Scribus and fill the contents. I would like to have some way that the properties of the paragraph. The most minimal interface change I could see would be an additional toggle on the Drop Caps paragraph effect whether it would take effect on all or only the first paragraph. The suggestion in this thread to have a next style would also work for me. I would not prefer settings on each paragraph as that would increase the complexity of my processing by having to insert paragraph styles rather than relying on a DefaultStyle. In the mean time I will probably end up handling more of the styling in my processing to cope with this lacking feature. Example of generated content I tested in Scribus 1.5.8, inside of a PAGEOBJECT, where each paragraph gets a capital in style of 'Capital Red 1'. In this case 'Computers had...' and 'As the year...'. <StoryText><DefaultStyle ParagraphEffectCharStyle="Capital Red 1" ParagraphEffectOffset="0" ParagraphEffectIndent="0" DROP="1" DROPLIN="3" Bullet="0" Numeration="0"/><ITEXT CH="Computers had fascinated Zangemann ever since he was a child. When he was young, computers were huge machines with lots of cables and loud, noisy fans. At school, little Zangemann often dreamed of all the things he would do with computers if they were just a little bit smaller — small enough that they could be built into other fun things. He knew what he would do. First, he would build a computer into his skateboard so that it would make cool noises when he rode it — maybe a fire engine siren or the sound of a rocket launch. Then he would use a computer to invent ice‑cream-making machines! The computer would mix the coolest flavors and even sell the ice cream. There would be machines on every street corner, and he could get ice cream in his favorite flavor whenever he felt like it, and just as much as he wanted. After that, he’d build a cleaning robot and a block-sorting machine so that his room would always be neat and clean. Zangemann had great new ideas like these every day. He could think of nothing else."/><para/><para/><ITEXT CH="As the years went by, Zangemann grew bigger and computers got smaller. In fact, by the time he finished school, they were so small they fit in his pocket. The smallest ones even fit on his fingertip."/><trail/></StoryText> |
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Having experimented in Scribus, I found the pragmatic solution of `<breakline/><breakline/>` instead of `<para/><para/>` to separate paragraphs. This does combines the paragraphs into a single paragraph and so is not ideal. It would be better to programmatically set a style on the other paragraphs that overrides the default paragraph style of the text frame so that drop caps are deactivated. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2004-01-24 18:27 | Tsoots | New Issue | |
2004-09-05 19:55 |
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Note Added: 0002310 | |
2004-09-27 06:38 |
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Relationship added | related to 0000363 |
2005-07-12 04:20 |
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Note Added: 0005543 | |
2005-07-12 04:24 |
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Status | new => acknowledged |
2010-10-25 11:51 | cezaryece | Note Added: 0024725 | |
2010-10-25 11:52 | cezaryece | Note Edited: 0024725 | |
2016-01-23 13:18 | Kunda | Tag Attached: dropcap | |
2016-04-11 19:11 | Kunda | Relationship added | related to 0010338 |
2016-04-11 19:13 | Kunda | Note Edited: 0002310 | |
2025-03-21 07:29 | nicorikken | Note Added: 0052283 | |
2025-03-28 20:16 | nicorikken | Note Added: 0052358 |