On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:05, Jon Phillips wrote: > Anyway, if there is anyway at least to support dynamic updating of RTF's > which contain style markup, or any plugins, this would be greatly > beneficial! I really want to have like 10 text files that other > individually maintain in CVS, and then one master Scribus document that > I can just hit update and the texts are changed in the master. This > would make design so much simpler!!!
This is something I, too, have been interested in. I haven't yet been able to figure out how it could work when the "story" file includes a headline, etc, though. Sure, the text could be updated ; but the DTP user would still need to re-style everything, possibly add or remove linked text boxes, etc. I suspect that to be most useful, such a feature would want an input markup that permitted some content to be flagged so it would be ignored. > I think Quark and Indesign have > this implemented in a similar manner. If Quark does it, I'd love to know how. Maybe it was added in Quark 5 or 6 (but that'd mean getting something for your upgrade money, so I'm not convinced), but all I have been able to find is the usual linked image ability. Craig Ringer
