[Scribus] text formatting (bullet lists, special characters, subscripts) suggestions...
Carol Kankelborg
cckborg1
Wed Oct 29 17:44:26 CET 2003
At 9:22 -0500 10/29/03, Peter Linnell wrote:
> > subscripts, superscripts
>
>Controllable from the Properties Palette. No problem there.
While text can be super- and subscripted in Scribus through the Properties
Palatte, it would be nice to be able to import text that is already super- or
subscripted, even for non-technical writing. I see superscripting (e.g. 14th)
and some italics such as for book titles more as "punctuation" than
"formatting."
I would rather get those elements correct in the text file to be
imported, just
as I would capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, and then not
have to worry
about remembering to "fix" the text after importing it. A simple
tagging scheme
a la HTML would suffice for this I think.
Certainly, being able to import fully styled text would be great, but
I'd settle for a
simplified scheme like I describe above.
I just had another thought for a useful, related feature. Could a
text tagging scheme
also allow you to specify what paragraph style to apply to each
paragraph? So if I
want multiple paragraph styles within a text file I want to import, I
can tag each
paragraph with the name of a paragraph style that already exists in
the document I
am importing into. This saves me from choosing the most common paragraph style
when I import text and then changing the differing paragraphs to
their correct styles.
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Carol Kankelborg
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