Peter Barnes wrote: > Personally I want to be able to import files with character styles but with > tags instead of paragraph styles. In Windows and Pagemaker I found RTF > provided the solution to this. I mapped each tag to a single keystoke in > the word processor (WordPerfect) so that they could be inserted very fast. > Unlike with paragraph styles, you can easily and quickly move tagged text > around in a word processor document without the style disruption that > occurs with paragraph styles. With Scribus I would be happy to import RTF > or ODT (saved from OpenOffice) as long as I can also import the tags as > above.
This fits quite well to the piping idea. Pipe the text from rtf/odt to the filter plugin where you can apply paragraph/character styles based on your tags. > Having said that I want to import the character styles, that raises one > comment. I have just started trying to learn Scribus again and note that > it has "proper" italic fonts. My OpenOffice has only the more common > "imposed" italics. Are there any issues with importing these italics from > OpenOffice to Scribus? Text importer will recognize the italic used in OO.o and will try searching a true italic from the same family. If no such font is found importer will pop up a font replace dialog (just like with docs missing fonts).
