On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > No. I've some ideas of making XML+CSS the native format for Scribus text > frames. > It would allow to store the XML in external databases and do round-trip > editing (just for > the content, CSS formatting would be one-way).
I floated this idea way back at the dawn of this list, years ago. Without digging up those emails, I recall that the arguments in favor were, first, consistency and second, portability, and the arguments against were, first, how fine-grained would the control be?, and second, how many times are we gonna re-invent the file format? -- Steve Herrick Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger
