Thanks, Greg. It would be nice but it's not the end of the world! I like your idea of keeping a 'library' of styles and then importing them.
Thanks a lot, Paul On 02-10-2018 10:39 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 02/10/2018 09:52 AM, Paul Deverson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to Scribus and wonder whether it's possible to create a text >> style from some already formatted text rather than creating the style >> and then applying it to text? >> > The short answer is no. > This has been brought up a number of times, and would indeed be a nice > feature. > Looking at Scripter commands, there just aren't enough pieces there to > create anything substantial. You have access to font, font size, font > color and shading, linespacing, and linespacing mode, but that's about > it, and not nearly enough to make this scriptable. > > One thing you can do and is worth thinking about is that you can import > text styles from some other document. They might even be blank documents > except for the styles. If there are certain combinations of style > features you use quite a bit, this can be worth it even if you might > have to slightly modify them after import. > > Generally speaking, this is a good reason to get into the habit of > creating styles when you work, so that first of all, you become familiar > with the mechanics of how to do it, but also so that you develop a trove > of styles in old documents you can use again. > > 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 Paul Deverson 320 Hamilton Drive, Unit 16 Ancaster, Ontario L9G 4W6 cell: 1-289-834-3482 paul at pauldeverson.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20180210/728e71f7/attachment.html>
