Adrienne Carmack wrote: > My Word document is heavily formatted with bold words, font& size > changes, etc. Right now, I am converting each chapter to .txt, > importing into Scribus, then comparing the docs side by side to > reapply the formatting. > > This is quite tedious and I'm wondering if there's some way it could > be easier.
I just made an OpenDocument text in an older version of OpenOffice and set some words to bold, bold+italic, and underlined. Then I started Scribus and began a new document with a text area. I right-clicked on the text area in Scribus and used "Get Text..." to import my ODT document directly into that text area. I accepted the defaults to import all of the style information present in the ODT document. The text came across perfectly preserving the bold, bold+italic, and underlined words. I believe it also preserved my font choice as well. I'm sure my document wasn't as long as yours and my document was far simpler, but I'd try doing this as a first step rather than lots of tedious hand editing. Good luck!
