On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 06:14 PM, JLuc wrote: > > Le 13/05/2014 03:49, Kunda Loves Scribus a ?crit : > >> > http://superuser.com/questions/742189/how-can-i-update-a-text-frame-in-scribus-from-a-text-file > >> > >> > >> Does anyone have a stackexchange account that is willing to answer this? > > > > I'd be interested but i'm afraid there is no simple way. > > > > There is one or more bugreports for this feature. > > > > Having just gone through the process of revisiting Autoquote.py and > transforming to en+emdash.py, this is an intriguing question. > > Part of these scripts is to scan the content of a frame, character by > character, and what you find as you do this is that this includes the > control characters for styles, so you have to deal with these in order > to not mess up the applied styles when for example you change '--' to > en-dash. In other words, you have to write the code to leave those > control characters intact even as you otherwise edit the text. Not so > far different from what this questioner is asking. > > When I get a chance I may tinker with this a bit (Christoph says I'm > mostly a tinkerer), but I can't make any promises. > > Greg Hey y'all, Thanks for the replies. Verry interesting. In another interesting development it seems like this question has already been asked and answered: http://superuser.com/questions/550770/how-can-i-autopopulate-text-in-scribus-from-a-text-file Hopefully this inspires you, Greg, in the way of your continuous tinkering and tweeking. Perhaps we can offer this as a bundled function in Scribus? Cheers, /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140515/85f69db1/attachment.html>
