At 9:22 -0500 10/29/03, Peter Linnell wrote: > > subscripts, superscripts > >Controllable from the Properties Palette. No problem there.
While text can be super- and subscripted in Scribus through the Properties Palatte, it would be nice to be able to import text that is already super- or subscripted, even for non-technical writing. I see superscripting (e.g. 14th) and some italics such as for book titles more as "punctuation" than "formatting." I would rather get those elements correct in the text file to be imported, just as I would capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, and then not have to worry about remembering to "fix" the text after importing it. A simple tagging scheme a la HTML would suffice for this I think. Certainly, being able to import fully styled text would be great, but I'd settle for a simplified scheme like I describe above. I just had another thought for a useful, related feature. Could a text tagging scheme also allow you to specify what paragraph style to apply to each paragraph? So if I want multiple paragraph styles within a text file I want to import, I can tag each paragraph with the name of a paragraph style that already exists in the document I am importing into. This saves me from choosing the most common paragraph style when I import text and then changing the differing paragraphs to their correct styles. -- ====================================================================== Carol Kankelborg cckborg1 at alumni.lehigh.edu
