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Seneca

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  1. Your example has paragraph return after each line. What I'm trying to communicate to you is that I don't want that. My example as you can see has soft returns after each line. And then the paragraph ends with a paragraph return which is the end of the stanza. Because the stanza ends with a paragraph return you then have space for the next stanza to start. All this should be accomplished with one paragraph style not 2. That's the difference.
  2. I want to keep each stanza below as one paragraph and not as each separate line or separate paragraph: So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 'If it had grown up,' she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only knew the right way to change them--' when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. I know how to deal with this situation the "usual" way very well. I've been doing this for for a very long time. The only way to keep these separate lines as one paragraph is to separate each line with a soft return but that would mean that soft returns would need to acquire new capabilities. I'd like them to be more flexible so that when instructed they too could start each line from the left like each paragraph return does now.
  3. Hi Petar, Please look at my initial post and you should see what I am trying to accomplish. As I said earlier no problems if you separate each one with a paragraph return. But I'm hoping that there wold be a better way, using soft returns. That way liturgical texts and poetry would retain sense lines and would still be part of one distinguishable stanza. If only soft returns could start from the left as paragraph returns do that would solve this particular problem.
  4. Disagree. Decorations is the most sofisticated feature in Publisher that is not available anywhere else (that I am aware of). Icons can be changed but we need all these inputs to make sure that this feature stays as flexible as possible. Currently there are some bugs there in regards to selecting items from the Decoration pop-up that I hope that this will be fixed soon. As it stands there are infinite ways to decorate text in Publisher. Incredible.
  5. Thanks. Another issue with text frames is with gutter sizes. When you reduce or enlarge the gutter size the frame either gets shrunk or gets expanded. The text frame size should be unaffected by that operation.
  6. This sort of thing can be done in Affinity Designer, meaning: back cover + spine + front cover joined together. When Designer enters 1.7 beta timeframe I suspect it will have a host of new features inherited from Publisher including visible bleeds and will become even more suitable for book cover design.
  7. Yes, I tried to see how that would work in practice but every time I apply a paragraph style to a selection of characters with some paragraph style the new style gets applied to the whole paragraph. So maybe, that just not possible and it shouldn't be possible of course. That's what character styles are for.
  8. Well, you create that text box on the first page. Then Shirt-click on a triangle (out text) situated at the bottom right of the text frame you created and voila Publisher has created all other text frames for you automatically. Bear in mind that this process will change in the future. You should be able to create your master pages with text boxes, like in QuarkXpress and inDesign.
  9. See what you get when you click on Paragraph Style [No Style] and Character Style [No Style] before anything else. Start from scratch. I can confirm that sometimes certain preferences set in the Paragraph Panel, not Paragraph Styles panel carry through to the Paragraph Styles. It seems to me that to set most of your styles through Paragraph Panel and then updating the Style in Paragraph Style panel has a chance of greater success, but your mileage may vary.
  10. It might me a bit too premature to start offering templates for books and cover pages for a project that is still in development. Once Publisher hits v1. I'm sure templates for books and cover will be offered by both Affinity and users alike.
  11. Hi A_B_C, I agree with you. You shouldn't be able to select both at the same time. This should change. One idea to quickly show what pages belong to what Master pages would be as follows. If you select a master page all pages belonging to that master page could get a blue outline. And if you select a page then all the Master pages that this page has inherited from should also show a blue outline. That might be one way of visually representing this relationship between pages and master pages and vice versa.
  12. The Pages panel is divided in 2 areas. Master Pages on top and Pages below. To make sure you work on the pages you want you need to double-click either the Master page or a page you want to work on. That's all. A blue outline flashes followed by a grey outline. This grey outline indicates whether you are working on pages themselves or on a Master page.
  13. You could try to reset all preferences in the Preferences Dialog. Preferences > Miscellaneous.
  14. Master pages don't work the way they do in inDesign or Quark. You need to work on pages themselves and manually put the first frame on the page and the you can add the rest of the frames automatically by shift-clicking bottom right triangle. This is going to change in the future and will work more like inDesign and Quark. This is being worked on as we speak.
  15. I don't think master pages are supposed to carry over margins to the pages they have been applied to.
  16. This is about the arrows at the bottom and to the right indicating that you can add, delete colours, rows.
  17. I hear what you are saying and I agree with you. For very long documents that is. However, there are situations where embedding images makes perfect sense, when you have a document with a very few pages, like a flyer, leaflet, ad, etc.
  18. Of course the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to have styles. You define styles for your document and then simply update your styles with the fonts you need.
  19. Yes, sorry, you are right. Then try to find and replace feature. Text > Find ... You can search for any formatting, including font, paragraph styles, character styles and see whether that works for you, but it should.
  20. A combination of both would be even better, that is, standalone MPs and Hierarchical MPs. Being able to base your pages on a master mage and then on additional pages as per now would be a big win in my books.
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