Hello Martin! Re: Crossword Puzzle
What's wrong with Excel or Open Office Calc for making crossword puzzles? There you will get the grid and the tabs automatically. Then you import it into Scribus. Voila! Regards H?kan L?fgren Message: 6 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 12:19:06 +0100 From: ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org><mailto:[email protected]> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net<mailto:scribus at lists.scribus.net> Subject: [scribus] Making a Crossword Puzzle Message-ID: <bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at revue-gugu.org><mailto:bdd79d05-11d1-869e-110c-ad0d959c19c8 at revue-gugu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi List, for our magazine, I am doing the layout for a crossword puzzle at the moment - or rather a word-grid, where the children will search certain key words. I have done this a few times in the past, and what works best for Scribus, is when I am using an array of tabs of type "Centre" because all our characters are of different width of course, some positions in our alphabet even are digraphs like GB or SH (I have hacked a font, so no problem in that area). ==================================== Now I am looking for the way to seed the Scribus Style Manager Window for my word-grid with an entire batch of 17 new tab stops, all of type "Centre" and each 10,23 mm from the previous one. ==================================== For now - and inspired by a recent mail from JLuc - I have made a workaround/hack: I prepared a spreadsheet and calculated all my needed positions and have copied and pasted my tab-lines in my mydocument.sla like this: <Tabs Type="4" Pos="28.9984251968504" Fill=""/> <Tabs Type="4" Pos="57.9968503937008" Fill=""/> <Tabs Type="4" Pos="86.9952755906" Fill=""/> <Tabs Type="4" Pos="115.9937007874" Fill=""/> <Tabs Type="4" Pos="144.9921259843" Fill=""/> Type "4" means "centre" I believe I had seen in the past a way how to quickly seed all needed tab stops, if they are spaced with equal distances. Maybe I am wrong, maybe I had seen that in LibreOffice or in CorelDraw. If it does not exist, would other users also see that as a useful new feature? A mini dialogue to tell Scribus, similar to the very useful new-frame dialogue: "For this style, I would like n new tab stops, beginning at x mm and spaced by y mm and of type z." Greetings, Martin PS: Scribus is awesome for jobs like making word grids, because I have total control over my text-frame: vertical alignment, distances from my frame, background colour, font-size, font, line-spacing, etc. So the grid is exactly what I want (just making the tabs was boring and entering them manually was a risk of typos). -------------- next part -------------- En HTML-bilaga skiljdes ut... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20171002/5aee1fe2/attachment.html>
