On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:30:01 -0500 john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> dijo:
>Sometimes Scribus can handle an odt file, but >sometimes not. The surest source is a plain >text file. If you don't have one then save one >from Open Office, Libre Office or Acrobat Reader. We all have a different workflow. I use Scribus to lay out materials that I have written myself. I am not a designer and I never work with documents produced by others. It is possible to write directly in Scribus, but it is far easier to do it in a word processor like OO/LO. And while writing you frequently want to apply some simple formatting, e.g., italics, lest you forget at the end. It is during the moment of creation that the need for such things occurs. The problem with saving from OO/LO as a plain text file is that it will strip all such local formatting. After I import the text file into Scribus I have to go through and try to remember where I applied local formatting when I was writing the piece. And it's not just bold and italic; it's indenting the margins and adjusting the font size for a long quote, setting a header larger and bold, and many other things. Luckily for me I have never had a problem importing an OO/LO document into Scribus. Even more fortunate is that such imports preserve at least paragraph styles. So I can just do the formatting in OO/LO with styles and it all comes into Scribus intact. The only thing I miss (Scribus 1.4.3) is being able to import character styles, but hopefully that will come along eventually.
