On Fri, October 5, 2012 11:41, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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? > the filter is a one-way street. It would be nice to be able to save text so that it might be used by either Scribus or LibreOffice.
Greg
