-- Carol Kankelborg said: > A simple tagging scheme a la HTML would suffice for this I think.
-- ephemeron said: > HTML import should be sufficient for most people. HTML is by far > the most common formatted text format. I even receive it in my > mailbox ;-) I was looking at what a scribus doc looks like in a plain text editor and it looks kinda like HTML so I'm guessing it's XML. Is there a URL to the DTD for a scribus doc? Or is it somewhere in the source tarball (I didn't see it, but I could have missed it - I'm not used to looking through so many files)? Cuz I *think* that if I have that, I could write a script that could turn a *very*simple* HTML doc into a scribus doc with one text frame with some simple formatting - basically only italics, bold, underline, superscript, and subscript. I would have the script strip out and ignore any additional tags - kinda like the way a web browser ignores any tags it doesn't know. I don't want to make any promises, but unless I'd be stepping on some ones toes - or someone knows that this is a really stupid idea - I'd like to try. I would write it originally in perl, but I'm sure if I can get it to work it won't be that hard to learn enough python to convert it. :) And maybe once it was python script I could learn how to turn it into a plug in that imported an HTML file into a new text frame in the current document? But that's kinda far off right now. Back to the point, I tested it and I can copy paste a text frame from one scribus doc to another and keep the formatting intact. So if I can get this to work, it might be a start of a way to import with some very basic formatting? So uh, I guess this is a very long way of asking if a scribus doc really is an XML file and if so, where the DTD is? Thanks for reading all of this. -- mary
