On 10/8/12 3:02 PM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote: > On 10/07/2012 02:48 PM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote: >>> Ciao >>> It would be like haven to have the ability to import into Scribus >>> text with such which retain its formatting, such things as Italics, >>> Bold, Underlining and if possible Subscript and Superscript and >>> Indenting. Preferably from OpenOffice. >>> >>> I have a big 200 + book coming from Canada with all this formats in >>> it. I can foresee me making a some mistakes and having to send my >>> work to the client in PDF and then editing in Scribus, able days to >>> do so. >>> >>> The to be able to import to do final edit in OpenOffice. >>> >> The way to do this is to refrain from doing any text editing in >> Scribus. Make your various styles, etc., in LibreOffice (or >> OpenOffice), and they should be successfully imported with the text. >> When you proofread and find errors, go back to the ODT file and edit >> in LO/OO, then import again. Of course with 200 pages, you will want >> to break this up anyway, but certainly re-importing a huge ODT file >> would be a task which might rightfully provoke anxiety for the layout. >> >> Having said this, you may still need to tweak styles. I don't think >> that LO/OO can match the precision of font size, for example (at >> least it won't show any value smaller than tenths of a point). For >> the layout of a book, there probably will be some places where a line >> or some words might need some very subtle adjustments to fit or for >> aesthetic reasons. >> >> Greg > > A *BIG +1* from me on this subject!!!! > > But a couple of points .... > > * But why can't the 'Edit Text' option, (after right-clicking a text > frame), be made to work like the 'Edit Image' option for a Image > Frame? (With the same way of setting the program you want to use for > this). > > * The above would also get round the missing Spell Checker in Scribus > at the moment which is a major problem IMHO!!! > > * Last of all, (and I have brought this up before and don't accept the > reasons for not doing it). Why can't we have an _OPTION_, (note I > say _OPTION_ so you don't HAVE to use it!!), to anchor a graphic to > its text!!!??? To me this is another major missing feature. Every > time you edit or add some text you have to go through the WHOLE file > after that point and re-align the pics. Do that a few times with a > 200 page document and it drives you mad!! >
why can't you have all this? because somebody has to program it! and before that, somebody has to specify how (EXACTLY!) it should work... a/ personally, i think that we will get a way to synchronize a text box with it's source (under certain circumstances) somehow soon (i would say in the next year?) most of the pieces for building it are there... b/ the same holds for anchoring pictures (and other frames) to text... most of the code for it has been programmed. once the footnotes are in the main code, i believe that somebody will add it. same estimation: it should happen in the next year... and if you want to help it happen, go here http://www.scribus-ece.info/ and click generously on the flattr button :-) (the direct link being http://flattr.com/thing/921356/Scribus-ECE-unofficial-release-with-enhancements) ... or sit down for a couple of days and work on some specifications for those two features... ciao a.l.e
