On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:12:46 +0100 John Beardmore <John at T4sLtd.co.uk> dijo:
> > I can even predict the next fiasco. After fixing this one exercise that > > I am doing as an experiment, I will open the original document, then > > copy and paste the fixed text into the frames in the original document > > where it belongs. But the fixed text has an altered style. How much you > > wanna bet ...? > > > > Well, we'll see in about an hour. :) I came close to succeeding, although the way I intended didn't work at all. I copied the text in the little document to the clipboard. Then I opened the original document and deleted the text from the frames in question, followed by pasting in the text from the little document. The new style from the little document didn't make it. So I deleted the text, imported the style, then repasted in the text from the little document. Still no new style. Apparently styles don't copy and paste with the text. The only way I could get the new style was to apply the new style to the pasted text. And there goes all the manual kerning again. :( It might be possible to use Get Text, but I can't get Scribus to save the text from the little document as a text file. It says it's saving it, but it does not create the text file. Furthermore, even if it worked, apparently it saves only as raw text, so all formatting would be lost anyway. So then I just deleted the frames in the original document and copied and pasted the frames from the little document. That worked! The text came with the frame and the style and manual formatting was intact. Except, that is, for one strange item. I had manually applied a baseline shift to the tab+underscore because the default was too low. For some reason this formatting didn't make it. I can reapply the baseline shift to all 80 instances in this exercise, but I have to do it in the canvas because the option to apply baseline shift does not appear in the Story Editor. It's so slow to edit this document in the canvas that it will take about 25 minutes to do them all. And I have five more exercises to fix. Oh well, at least I have a methodology that works now.
