On Thursday 31 January 2008, Andy Graybeal wrote: > Dear list and attn: subik > <SNIP> > patch included with Scribus. > > I've been hitting up the Scribus IRC channel for about 3 years now asking > questions; but i don't use Scribus right now. I have very little > experience with MySQL but can do basic things with it. I also have > essentially no experience with python other than reading and mindlessly > following examples in books in the late 90's and early 00's. > > So... onto the my problem... > > I have mysql installed; I can login to it and put content into the db by > hand, for the example, i've named the db 'scribe' and added a few tables > with not much data. > > I've edited the 'username', 'password', 'server', and 'db' field in the > python example script... I realize that I should run the script within > Scribus... but I'm a little lost on the details of any thing further than > this. > > I would greatly appreciate an example Scribus document, DB tables, and > script to get me started in the correct direction, or else a very detailed > explaination. Something very simple would probably be good for me. > > Any advice would be appreciated, and to be honest, I don't know if Scribus > is even able to do what I'm imagining, but I think I'm on the right track. > > -Andy > I am in #scribus on IRC most evenings (GMT). I will try to help.
Steve Callcott (sjc)
