Gregory Pittman wrote: > taliesin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've actually done some very useful work in Scribus so far, just from >> reading the documentation. But I seem to have missed how to do the >> following and could do with some help: >> >> How can I add styles mark-up to a text document so that when I >> import it >> into a text field, those styles are automatically used? If that's not >> clear, what I'm wanting to do is have a plain text file loadoftext.txt >> which has some sort of mark-up in it such that when I import it into a >> text field, parts of it have the appropriate style set. I guess I'm >> thinking in terms of things like TeX and HTML and looking for >> something >> equivalent in Scribus. This would be useful to me as I can easily >> blast >> through a long text document using regular expressions or search and >> replace to add markup for chapter headings, sub-headings, highlighted >> names, etc. But going through a long piece of text in the Story >> Editor, >> highlighting parts and changing their style would take too long to be >> practical. >> >> Is there any way of doing what I want? I thought about importing my >> text >> as HTML and then changing the styles accordingly, but I wanted to >> check >> I wasn't missing something obvious. >> > There are 2 relatively useful ways to go. One is to set up your > styles in openoffice.org, in which case Scribus will apply these on > import of the ODT file. > > The second is to set up text filters. This is shown in one of the > videos on the wiki: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Scribus_Video_Tutorials#Three_ways_to_apply_styles > > > the third part of this video is what you're interested in -- starts > at 1 minute, 3 seconds into it. > > Greg
Greg, Thank you very much. That answers my question completely. I am finding Scribus very useful and, given that I have predominantly used word processors for all my documents (with the rare excursion into LaTeX when needed), I'm starting to find myself becoming quite obsessed with how very much nicer I can make my work look with Scribus. :) Cheers for the speedy reply. Taliesin.
