As part of the great breakage part 2. text importing will also be broken at least what comes to formatted text importing. To fix this I've found a sponsor to let me concentrate on Scribus and improving it's text importing options. COSS http://www.coss.fi/en/ (sponsor) has accepted my plan about creating a new Get Text plugin api for text importers. Related to this I've also commited to create text importers for RTF and ODT (current ODT importer is only a dirty hack on top of the SXW importer) and create a filter plugin where output of these file type (odt, sxw, rtf...) importers' can be directed and where things like S&R, style remapping, style applying based on tags and other things like that can be done. Filter will be pretty close to what we now have as "Text Filters" importer for plain text files but it will allow one to filter formatted text files as well. So to answer your question, yes it is coming. Time frame for my work will be from the beginning of June till the end of August (during this time i'll be able to fully concentrate on Scribus).
ps. My initial plan that i submitted to Coss was in finnish. I'll translate it and post here for your comments and additional ideas that could be included in my little project. Riku
