Quoting Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au>:
>> >> I also would like a feature as Raphael describes. What I found was that >> I was continually tweaking paragraph styles in Scribus itself and >> didn't want to have to keep updating them in two places (Scribus AND >> OpenOffice). I also wanted to keep the OO file as the master for text, >> but what I ended up doing was importing once and editing in place in >> Scribus. In one case, OO couldn't see one of the fonts that Scribus >> could so I couldn't set an OO style properly anyway. (Fonts is one >> of those murky areas I need to look into more.) >> >> I realize that in a "real" DTP workflow, I should have all the tweaking >> taken care of before working with content, but even so, once I get >> styles set up just so in Scribus, most of the time I don't need to >> set them up in as much detail in the OO import doc. > > In this case, import but do not import the styles. Choose "Text Only" on the > import window. In this case the pure text will be imported and no styles. You > can then apply them from within Scribus. > > Craig > But what we want is that the people who work on OO can choose the styles that we are using in Scribus. We give to the author a list of styles (heading, normal_text, etc.) that he will use in OO and when we import the text, the styles become automatically our Scribus' styles (the idea is to avoid the re-definition of the styles in Scribus). Raphael
