Hello, people. For what they're worth, here are some thoughts on a Scribus/Emacs project that just might be attractive for Summer of Code.
- Personally, whenever it's seemed appropriate to edit an .sla file in a text editor, I've found the experience rather daunting. Even a fairly simple scribus-mode for Emacs would be useful, so I don't think this would be a hard project to get off the ground. - Even the side project of collecting together all the various tips on editing .sla files would be intrinsically helpful. And it would open the possibility of getting the scribus-mode up to being very useful. Example: locating usage of some particular style. Example: easing relocation of images to a different directory. Example: rearranging bookmarks. - Going further, a second Emacs mode, scribus-story-mode, would specialize in editing marked up text for Story Editor import/export. One access method would be from the main scribus-mode, which when the cursor is in a chunk of Story Editor text would give the option of opening a separate buffer in scribus-story-mode. The other access method would be on opening something exported from the Story Editor. In the latter case, it could be nice to be able, from scribus-story-mode, to generate a new document and pop it open read-only in Scribus to see the consequences of fiddling in Emacs. Even though the Scribus developers may be mainly vi users, it still should be possible to get the above Emacs modes to a point where they will be useful to developers and not just to us users. Thanks. John MacPhail
