On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:30:18 -0400 (EDT) gpittman at iglou.com dijo: >On Fri, October 5, 2012 01:26, Peter Nermander wrote: >> So, what I objected against was that using a text editor some way >> would be the optimal way to handle text that should be imported into >> Scribus. >> >> Writing directly in Scribus however is usually not the best way. What >> I personally would like to see is something in the line of a stand >> alone version of the Story Editor, or something like LyX, where text >> could be created and be easily marked up with a limited set of >> markup. I think that being able to apply named paragraph and >> character styles to the text would be sufficient. The editor could >> have options to change the visual appearance of the styles, but when >> importing into Scribus only the names of the styles would be used.
>It would be worth considering an enhanced editor, something of an >intermediary between Scribus and, say LibreOffice, which could push the >formatted text in either direction, so that it could be further edited >in either Scribus or LibreOffice. > >Sounds like an idea for a new standalone project. :-) :-O It seems to me that the efforts would be better spent on improving the Open/LibreOffice import filters. Why reinvent the wheel?
