Working with Story Editor
Story Editor is the small editing window used to manually enter text into a text frame. It is currently mainly meant to display the text content, with only some minimal display features enabled.
Story Editor will show some kind of depiction of:
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Story Editor does not display the following text frame features:
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Settings
This is the last item on the Menu, but contains basic display functions that may be important as you begin to edit.
Settings > Background... allows you to adjust the background, but only in the Story Editor display. You would use this, for example, if your text is white or very pale. Changing the background will make it more visible.
Settings > Display Font... will change the font, but again, only in the Story Editor display, simply as a matter of personal taste.
Settings > Smart text selection is a toggle. The default behavior when double-clicking on a word is to select the word and the first aftercoming space. "Smart" selection will select only the word, without the aftercoming space.
Getting Started
In many cases, you may simply want to immediately start entering text. The features that your text will have, font, its size, line spacing, and so on will mostly not be revealed until to save your entry and exit Story Editor.
Even if this is the first time you are using Scribus, there will be default settings displayed which you may change manually as needed. Keep in mind that if you change settings, such as font for example, this will only apply to text that you subsequently enter, not that you have already entered. If you wish to change font features for text already entered, you must highlight the text (click-drag the mouse, or Shift+arrows) first, then change the feature(s) you wish to alter.
To change the default text settings, you must leave Story Editor, and go to File > Preferences > Tools, then click on the Text Frame icon.
The various settings for text properties are discussed in the Text Tab section of Working with text frames. There is a slightly different layout in Story Editor, but features are the same. Note that one adjustment missing in Story Editor is for shifting the baseline of characters.