On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:38, Gregory Pittman wrote: > Steve Herrick wrote: > > Quoting Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>: > > > > > >>It would seem there could be some kind of cake-and-eat-it-too solution > >>to this, such as having each text box link to an external file, and > >>retain that link, so that you could save from the text box to an > >>external file, or reload from the file to the text box. > > > > > > The problem I see with this is, where would you store information like > > kerning, font, size, > > linespacing, etc.? In the original file, or in a Scribus file? > > > > Steve > > I see what you mean, but emacs could certainly handle all the tags even > if they were exported to a text file. It would sort of amount to having > a more digestible .sla mini-file. > > It could also lead, perhaps, to a better visual design of .sla files. > Right now, they're obviously not generated to be easily read by humans, > with all the tags smashed together and the use of "^E" for carriage > return mixed in with the text. >
We expect to be bringing new features after 1.2 that will bring about changes to the .sla file format. This will also bring in an easier to read, more "XML-based" format (which is a point to note for those that have asked in the past about format DTDs etc). Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040111/08c1bcb6/attachment.pgp
