Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 23:40 schrieb Ian Malone: > Pierre-Luc Auclair wrote: > > My comment may pass as rude, but I have totally no idea since when apps > > like Word and OpenOffice have been considered as layout applications. > > Who claimed they were? > > > They are just too weak to do anything more than setting text in bold and > > text transport for people who don't have the knowledge to use real > > layouting apps. > > This is why I was using scribus. > > > OTOH, I'm interested to know what you are working on with such a big > > sheet size. > > Conference paper. > > > On Friday 07 April 2006 16:29, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > >>> It was an A0 poster; the font size is sufficiently large that it's > >>> a pain to work with it in Writer. I suppose I could have changed > >>> the page size and zoomed out in Writer, but then you're > >>> starting to do the layout in Writer rather than Scribus. > >> > >> Hi Ian, > >> > >> I wonder why you are working in such a complicated way, but then I don't > >> know your project. > > Partially because I wanted to experiment with scribus. It also turns > out to be useful to have the content split up into seperate text files > so I can do things like give my supervisor parts to be incorporated in > a presentation. > > >> If I were you, I wouldn't do any formatting in OO.o at all and create > >> all the paragraph styles in Scribus instead, especially if I were "only" > >> producing a poster. That way , I'd save myself a lot of trouble :) > > This is basically what I ended up doing in the end. It is annoying > though when you make a change in a source file, re-import it and > have to assign all the styles again. The 'markup' is already present, > it would have been nice to be able to make use of it.
But you can "map" existing styles to a Scribus style during import, once the style exists. Unless I'm totally wrong, you seem to expect some black magic ;). Cheers, Christoph
