On 05/04/2017 01:39 AM, "Christoph Sch?fer" wrote: >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 02. Mai 2017 um 21:40 Uhr >> Von: "wagner jussiani" <wantjuss at yahoo.com.br> >> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Betreff: [scribus] Markup support for the Story Editor >> >> Hey, All: >> >> What about markup support for Scribus? This thought ocurred me when I >> recently saw multimarkdown. If I could define some elements of text >> formatation (fonts, paragraphs, pages, columns, tables, and others) in a >> appropriate field in the Story Editor (or anywhere else, like menu edit >> styles), linking them to markup symbols, then I could write a text in >> another word processor with markup and Scribus could apply the text >> formatation associated with each markup symbol in a automatic way. >> >> What do you think about? >> >> Wagner >> > > Hi Wagner, > > > > We already have something like this. It's called the Text Filter. You can > trigger it via the text import dialogue, where you have to select "Text > Filter" in the "Importer" drop-down list. > > > Unfortunately, this code is more than a decade old and hasn't been updated > ever since, which is why it only covers paragraph styles. If you want to get > your hands dirty, feel free to do so. > > > What needs to be done is the follwing: > > > - Enable the use of character styles; > > - Enable the replacement of characters, e.g., "--" with a real n or m dash; >
For this, there is the en+emdash.py script I wrote. One of the reasons for the script is the difficulty of entering Unicode characters using the Find/Replace method. Greg
