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Numbered Lists

You may be familiar with the concept of automatically created numbered and bulleted lists from your word processor. Unfortunately, Scribus 1.3.3.x doesn't offer this feature yet. There is, however, an easy workaround, which has the advantage of giving you a maximum of control over the layout of your list.

First, create a new paragraph style for your list. In this style you create a tabulator at, say, 15 pt. This will be the distance between the number and the text. You also need to set the indent for the first line to a negative identical value to the tabulator, in our case -15 pt. This is almost all of the magic.

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Create a text frame and write your list in the frame or in the Story Editor:

  1. [tab key] First Topic
  2. [tab key] Second Topic etc.


All you have to do is to apply the style to the list entries:

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Bulleted Lists

If you want to create a bulleted list, even with some unusual bullet points, you can do this easily and also with high precision. After creating your paragraph style as explained above, you have to use a unique combination of characters like &% as placeholders for your bullet points:

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Now you can choose a Dingbat font for bullet points. If you're not sure which symbol you should insert, you can use the preview of the Insert > Glyph dialog or Extras > Font Preview. Now open Edit > Search/Replace. Under “Search for:” insert “&%”. Under “Replace with:” insert e.g. “4” and choose a Dingbat font in the font selector:

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Now click “Search” and then “Replace All”, and you're done:

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