Russbucket wrote: > On Monday 10 July 2006 12:36, Pedrie Roberts wrote: > >> Pedrie: >> Thanks for all who answered about downloading and installing for Ubuntu, >> esp. Mr Jordan, who knows what he's doing AND how to explain it. >> My biggest frustration with Scribus is Story Editor, which i.m.o. is quite >> useless for editing and maybe Scribus' weakest feature. And you can't use >> another editor, because it seems you can't paste into Story Editor. Any >> hope of at least wysiwig? (I'm not just negative; I think Scirbus in >> general is absolutely fantastic.) >> > I di not follow your original thread but you can paste into the story editor. > I just pasted the contents of your post there. > > I di a Edit copy of the text, then went to Scribus (version 1.3.3.2, SUSE > 10.0), created a text box and then did ctrl V (paste). Note edit paste will > not work in the story editor (it's greyed out). You will still need to format > text or make styles to format it. The above method does not carry over the > formatting. > This is under active development right now, to allow importation of formatting from outside sources. There is some ability to retain formatting from oo.org and html. You can always use a plain text editor, import the text, then format in Story Editor (paragraph styles are useful here) or in the main window in Properties.
Greg
