/On Friday 30 January 2009 15:02:09 Gregory Pittman wrote: > Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > How long wil it take before the Scripter-NG is fully implemented? Don't > > want to do a lot of work for nothing :) > > Well, I don't anticipate soon. Probably the advance to the next stable > release will happen before Scripter-NG gets expanded. What Henning > Schr?der has done is to set up a more easy way to add commands: > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GSoC_2008_Accepted_Applications#.3D_Scrip >terNG_-_a_new_scripting_plug-in_for_Scribus > > > I understand your point but the situation is the following: > > > > I am writing a script to import wiki tekst files into scribus. I am doing > > this for an organisation that publishes books, a lot of writers work from > > home so writing in a wiki is convenient for them. The layout of the books > > (margins, text size etc) is always identical so it should be possible to > > build a script that automatically sizes textframes and applies styles. If > > the layout person has to do this manually for all books it will take a > > lot of time. > > Interesting that you use this method, since it is exactly how we created > our manual -- you're right, this is a very expedient way to edit and add > to texts. You might contact Christoph Sch?fer to ask how he managed. I > think what he did was to import the wiki text to openoffice.org, where > he applied styles, then imported to Scribus. > > I think he said that openoffice.org has a wiki import feature. > > Another method might be by using tagged text to create filters for > applying styles: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Laying_out_articles > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Thanks for the info, I'll look into it later. My script is advancing nicely except for the problem I have with the textbox height (in another post with subject: while loop in python script crashes scribus) I was hoping I could avoid transporting the text from program to program (wiki -> openoffice -> scribus) but it is nice to have a backup plan. If I succeed I will send my entire script to the mailinglist.
