2007/9/10, David Bodwell <mazbook at yahoo.com>: > > Christoph, > > No, both the Word HTML file and the OO.org HTML file correctly have the > footnotes at the end. It's when they are loaded into a Scribus text box > file that the OO.org HTML file gets garbled. Only the Word HTML file is > imported correctly. >
Hi David, Can you provide us with an example of "garbled" OO.o HTML files imported into Scribus and another one with the Word HTML? A screenshot of 2 Scribus text frames side by side showing the differences will be fine. Thanks! Louis Good suggestion about the LaTeX and LyX programs. Maybe a typesetting > program is what I need rather than a layout program like Scribus. > Thanks for the advice, > > David Bodwell > Editorial Mazatl?n > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> > To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 6:25:08 PM > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Problems loading text into Scribus > > Am Montag, 10. September 2007 00:18 schrieb David Bodwell: > > Thanks, Adreas and BOTH Craigs. I haven't tried the v1.3.3.10svn yet, > but > > Andreas' work around using HTML works quite well?IF you create the HTML > > document from a Microsoft Word .doc file, using Word, rather than from > an > > OpenOffice.org .odt file using OpenOffice.orgWriter. Both HTML file > look > > good, but only the Word created one imports properly into Scribus. > > > > Now, if there was some way to keep those footnotes on the correct page. > > The final published version of the work is for popular reading and the > > general public does NOT flip to the back to read footnotes as the > scholarly > > community does. > > Hi David, > > it seems there's a misconception here. Actually, the way OO.o does it, is > correct. In HTML, there's no such thing like a page break as you know it > from > word processors. Therefore, converting footnotes to endnotes is the ONLY > way > to handle them correctly. From a HTML "point of view", OO.o does it right, > > while Word screws up the HTML badly (as expected). > > As others have noted, Scribus doesn't support footnotes yet (QuarkXPress > doesn't either, unless you buy an extension). For the time being, use a > word > processor or a typesetting software like LaTeX or LyX. > > HTH > > Christoph > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070911/13fff1fe/attachment.html
