Hi > > It seems to me that the efforts would be better spent on improving > > the Open/LibreOffice import filters. Why reinvent the wheel? > > That is something that is needed too. I haven't used the filters in a > while though, so I am not sure it they still are as "bad" as the used > to be.
I fear that they are... > I would like the filters to import the text keeping the styles by > name, but not adding styles to Scribus but using available styles. And > a setting to either discard styles not already present or import them. > I guess the same option would be useful also for direct formatting. Very needed! And should be rather easy to implement. > Something in the line of setting up rules: > > Office style____________ In Scribus > Standard______________Map to Body text > Heading 1_____________Map to Main heading > > other styles: Map to Scribus style with same name (discard if no style > has same name) > > direct formatting: Bold____Map to Enhanced > direct formatting: other____discard I think that what we need is a full specification of the way the ODT styles are managed on import. Are you ready for it? :-) ciao a.l.e
