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Seneca

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  1. 11 minutes ago, garrettm30 said:

    Anyway, I'm just dreaming here. I know that this won't come any time soon if ever, and I won't abandon Publisher if it never does, but it doesn't hurt to think about it, and to sympathize when someone else who maybe is having a hard time thinking about style organisation differently from the way he is used to.

    I hope I didn't dampen your enthusiasm here, that wasn't my intention. I do have CSS background and I see your problem. But in reality working on any larger project you will end up having all these styles defined anyway. But, trying to look outside the box is great and I applaud you for that. 

    Maybe multiple inheritance would prove very valuable here.

    EDIT: MI will not solve this particular problem either. 

  2. 1 hour ago, garrettm30 said:

    But what if I have a selection of text that I want to be both bold and underline?

    I don't think I would want that as an option. But what's the difference between your approach of selecting part of text and applying say bold and then underline (2 actions) from having one character style Bold-Underline and apply it only once. You could base your Bold and Bold-Italic on the common style upstream to reduce repetition. 

  3. On 4/3/2020 at 6:25 PM, Old Bruce said:

    How about a linked pinned text frame. Pinned to the bottom of the current text frame. This could be containing overflow text so it can continue on the next page.

    Thank you @Old Bruce for your thoughts. I think that pinning text frames (side notes) to the main text is too fragile and is a hack as far as I am concerned. Peter's script does it because this feature doesn't exist in inDesign. I hope that Affinity will be able to come up with a solution that is more maintainable. And hopefully we the community will be able to push Affinity in the right direction.

  4. 14 hours ago, garrettm30 said:

    This will depend in large part on how each browser copies the table.

    I've just tried this. Copied the table linked by Gabe using Safari.

    I then selected the right number of columns and rows and pasted the table successfully.

    However, this doesn't work if I leave the cursor in a cell and paste. All get's pasted into one cell.

    I think Publisher should realise that the contents of a table are pasted into an existing table and it should paste that to appropriate cells.

    So, there is room for improvement here as far as I am concerned. 🙂

  5. 1 hour ago, IOIO said:

    When I copy content from an HTML table and paste it into a table in Publisher, the content in the clipboard is not interpreted as a table and is therefore only inserted into the first cell.

    I think you should post this in the Features Requests & Suggestions section.

  6. 6 hours ago, Helmar said:

    This would save so much work, because nothing is more annoying than having to reallocated master pages and section numbers, because of a change in text flow.

    Hi Helmar,

    Believe or not this idea came up already. I too would very much like to see something like that implemented in Publisher.

    But again, there are so many other things I would like to see implemented first.

  7. 1 hour ago, Helmar said:

    I'll now try to separate the chapters without AFP crashing

    Hi @Helma

    Splitting your book in independent chapters may afford you the most flexibility. You can add, or delete pages at will without worrying about how things may change down the line.

    Please let us know whether that has made any difference working on your book.

    Best regards

  8. 20 minutes ago, Helmar said:

    Looking forward to your ideas/experiences.

    Well, you seem to treat Publisher like a Word Processor. You should only start page-making business if your text is complete or almost complete.

    If you add pages, delete text things will move and there is nothing you can do about it.

    Whether you do it in inDesign, QuarkXpress or Publisher you should start layout out pages only if your text will not change. (Edits are to be expected of course).

    Magazines and leaflets are a different beast. Most of the pages are independent and you can add, delete them at will.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Helmar said:

    Happy hunting...

    This has happened to be before. The problem get's fixed then the same problem comes back again in another beta. Basically what happens is that the pinned object gets moved to the Master layer. if you open your layers panel you will notice that the graphics has been moved to that layer. It's annoying that this keeps coming back unresolved.

    Edit: To elaborate a bit further - this only happens if you pin to a text box coming from the Master Pages. If you create a text box on a page and pin anything to it this doesn't happen. I have reported this a number of times and it gets fixed and then the problem comes back again.

  10. 1 hour ago, jjk said:

    But I want just a shortcut key (or an icon tool) to move a numbered paragraph up or down, including sub-items.

    inDesign doesn't have a shortcut for that either but because it has scripting support  it has been scripted by Peter Kahrel and is available as a free script for those who want this.

    My point then is that if/when we get scripting in Publisher a lot of things like that will be sorted out fairly easily.

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