Thanks, I will convert to plain text and edit with gvim. I probably would have done that in the first place if I have not seen somewhere in the Scribus documentation that using .odt files was the 'preferred' method and I had .odf file that supposedly only use styles & bold & italics for formatting, so I thought they would be perfect.
Thank you very much for your help. ? ? -EdK Ed Keith e_d_k at yahoo.com >________________________________ > From: john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> >To: scribus at lists.scribus.net >Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 10:57 AM >Subject: Re: [scribus] how do I strip out unwanted overriding of paragraph >styles? > > >On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:16:00 -0400 >Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> On 09/02/2013 09:56 AM, Ed Keith wrote: >> > I am importing documents from LibraOffice. I was trying to use >> > styles to reformat it, when I figured out that it did not matter >> > how I set my paragraph styles because all the text properties seem >> > to be overridden. For now I have set the text properties in the >> > story editor by selecting all the text I want to make a given style >> > and setting the text properties to what I want that style to be. >> > This is working, but is is unsatisfactory, since changing the >> > styles has no effect, I need to reformat each bit of text >> > individually as a special case. >> > >> > Is there some way I can remove all the formatting from a frame then >> > add back in the few places where I want individual words or phrases >> > to be bold or italic, but if I change the font used in the >> > paragraph style the change will show up in the document? >> > >> >> That last sentence is a bit complicated, but certainly you can select >> a frame, then change the style to whatever you want, either a Default >> style or one you have created. Look at Properties > Text tab > Style >> Settings. >> >> After that, in Edit Contents mode you can highlight text and then >> change some aspect of its style with a Character Style, or even just >> ? la carte choices from Properties > Text. >> >> I think maybe you're making a case for just using a plain text editor, >> then making/editing styles in Scribus. >> >> Greg >> >> ___ >> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Edit your options or unsubscribe: >> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> See also: >> http://wiki.scribus.net >> http://forums.scribus.net > >If you save as plain text from the word processor, then all you need to >do is delete the page breaks etc. using an industrial strength plain >text editor like Gvim. These can be mass changes, e.g., delete all page >breaks. I do this all the time. > >I agree with Greg's solution for all new work. > >-- >John Culleton >Wexford Press >Free list of books for self-publishers: >http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html >PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" >available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > >___ >Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net >Edit your options or unsubscribe: >http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus >See also: >http://wiki.scribus.net >http://forums.scribus.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20130902/a6d24fac/attachment.html>
