Help:Manual Styles

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Working with Styles Why would someone want to use styles, or why might they be a good idea? Just what are styles in Scribus? There are two main categories of styles in Scribus, which you will see if you bring up the Style Manager dialog with Edit > Styles. The first is Line Styles, which will be discussed elsewhere in WwLines.html Working with Lines & Line Styles. The other kind of style applies to text layout, and you will see that this has two subtypes, Paragraph Styles and Character Styles. You will also see that there are defaults for each of these. These default settings come in part from the default font settings in File > Preferences > Tools for text frames, but you can also edit the default styles here in the Style Manager. Paragraph Styles are applied to an entire paragraph of text, as the name implies, while Character Styles will be applied to a collection of letters, words, or even paragraphs of text irrespective of the paragraph style setting. It gets even a bit more confusing since a paragraph style will always contain a character style within its definition. The why of styles is a matter of convenience, but also of easily achieving a consistent look in a document. For a newsletter, one may want to always use a precise collection of font attributes for headings, the body of the text, sidebars, whatever elements your newsletter may contain. Another convenience with styles is that, once you have applied them, if you edit a style later, the changes will automatically be applied wherever that style is used. Furthermore, styles can be imported from other Scribus documents, or you may clone a style to slightly modify it for some other purpose. Lastly, if you use OpenOffice.org and save in ODT format, you can import and automatically create any styles in Scribus that you may have created in Writer. With this brief introduction, let's start by making some paragraph styles.

Paragraph Styles

Drop Caps

Character Style

Importing Styles