On 04/18/2012 09:32 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote: > Ok, after further delving into this t's beginning to look like a > problem with Libre Office. I used its html exporter and opened the > source and this is what it looked like http://twitpic.com/9b9081 > > Out of interest, Gregory, what did you use to export the document to html? > > Antonio > > On 18 April 2012 13:51, Gregory Pittman<gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: >> On 04/17/2012 07:51 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote: >>> >>> As a work-around to Scribus not yet supporting Footnotes I'm following >>> the advice found on the Scribus wiki that recommends exporting your >>> document in HTML format and then adding in the footnotes manually >>> (source: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Footnotes_in_Scribus). This >>> works until you try and import a HTML document that has images as the >>> HTML importer tries to import the image as text. As images, when >>> opened in a text editor, consist of many hundreds of lines of text, >>> this often results in Scribus freezing. >>> >>> Is there a way to import an HTML document that has images? I just >>> don't want to have to go through my 50-page document and delete all of >>> the images first >> >> >> This seems odd. I think you should look at the HTML file under a text >> editor. >> >> I just did this same thing, with an HTML I created with a plain text editor, >> and import went Ok, with Paragraph styles created, and the images just >> showed up as the link in parentheses: >> >> (img, src:path/to/image.png) >> >> which I think is a useful feature, in case you want to add image frames to >> your Scribus document.
This is just starting out in Emacs with a file XXX.html... Typically I will use some copy-pasting for various headers, CSS if I want, otherwise just typing away. I get annoyed at these helper apps, so I stick to manually doing tags, etc. Also not fond of WSIWYG editors -- usually if you look at what they churn out, it's unnecessarily messy. Greg
