> about different types of formatting. I think it is fine to create a "text > markup element reference matrix" capability of sorts to allow various > publishing houses to define their own sets of simple text markup elements and > plug those into a standard converter to the scribus character format. That way
There really are not many elements needed. The ones I use in my HTML approach are more or less only <em>, <strong> and <code>. Headers, byline and such does not really need markup because they are easily identified and the layout person can easily see them and manually set correct style (if needed). Using a suitable CSS-file the author can preview the file using his web browser. No special program needed, just a text editor and a web browser. I like that minimalistic approach:-) /Peter
