>I have tried the text filter approach to importing text with tags for
>paragraph styles but it seems to only allow ASCII text. Therefore paragraph
>styles are imported but I cannot see a way to use tags for character level
>style such as italics in the body text.
>
>Also, when I tried importing an OpenOffice document which had several
>paragraph styles, these styles seemed to be largely imported successfully -
>but where I had used italics in the text this had become roman.
>
>My ideal would be to be able to use the text filters in an RTF file and be
>able to import paragraph styles via tags, and have character styles retained
>intact.
>
Character styles are not *yet* implemented in Scribus -- see the Roadmap on
Scribus Public Wiki for a timetable. Therefore tagged character import can't
presently work.
In a related matter -- if you or others are familar with regular expressions,
it turns out (special thanks to avox on IRC #scribus) that you can use regular
expressions not only for search but also for replace in a text filter. I have
implemented, among other things, a filter that reasonably intelligently
replaces inch marks (") with appropriate open or close double quotes. And I am
a total regex nOOb.
HW
