Gregory Pittman wrote: > Chantal Rosmuller wrote: >> Hi list, I need some advice. >> >> I want to import text that is currently in a text file. But I do not >> want to import all if it in one text frame. Every paragraph should >> have it's own text frame. How can I do that? Should I for example >> write a script to put the text file in mysql format first? Or maybe >> html? I know a thing or two about scripting and databases but not a >> lot about scribus. I am not sure how to get started, If someone can >> point me in the right direction that would be great. > You're wanted to do something very customized. The question is, > whether writing a script, editing your text file, for some automated > process is worthwhile. > Is there a certain layout? > Is there a reason you can't just divide your text file into a number > of text files, one for each frame? On the wiki there is a simple parsing script:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Importing_addresses_from_a_text_file As you can see, it reads a line at a time, then depending on the line's content, makes a simple decision. If your content can be parsed with some easily identifiable character(s), then you could parse one file to a number of decision points, and create new text frames, new pages with text frames, or even skip along frames in a defined template. Greg
