Am Mittwoch, 5. April 2006 18:11 schrieb Riku Leino: > As part of the great breakage part 2. text importing will also be broken at > least what comes to formatted text importing. To fix this I've found a > sponsor to let me concentrate on Scribus and improving it's text importing > options. COSS http://www.coss.fi/en/ (sponsor) has accepted my plan about > creating a new Get Text plugin api for text importers.
Congratulations Riku, and well deserved, I'd like to add. > Related to this I've > also commited to create text importers for RTF and ODT (current ODT > importer is only a dirty hack on top of the SXW importer) and create a > filter plugin where output of these file type (odt, sxw, rtf...) importers' > can be directed and where things like S&R, style remapping, style applying > based on tags and other things like that can be done. Filter will be pretty > close to what we now have as "Text Filters" importer for plain text files > but it will allow one to filter formatted text files as well. So to answer > your question, yes it is coming. Time frame for my work will be from the > beginning of June till the end of August (during this time i'll be able to > fully concentrate on Scribus). That sounds damn good, if may say so! > > ps. My initial plan that i submitted to Coss was in finnish. I'll translate > it and post here for your comments and additional ideas that could be > included in my little project. Great! I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious. Cheers, Christoph
