> ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Scribus Digest, Vol 49, Issue 56 > From: James Gilmore <james.d.gilmore at gmail.com> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Date: 20-03-2007 13:02 > > > > > - 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. > > What I do is replace spaces with newlines. There are a few places where > this makes a small mess, such as font names and coordinates for objects, > but it makes the whole thing easy to read, and a regexp or two could > even skip over the coordinates. For me, not having everything jammed > onto single lines made an immediate difference.
This is being fixed to some degree with the 1.3.4 release and more changes will come in 1.3.6. Craig
