Riku, Thanks for the update - this sounds like it will be very useful and will be appreciated by all those like myself who are more interested in text and black & white than pictures and colour ;)
Peter > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Riku Leino" <tsoots at gmail.com> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Text import using tags - any progress? > Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:11:52 +0300 > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 8 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze
