[Scribus] Text from database

[Gregory Pittman]

Wayne Maeda wrote:

>On Friday 20 August 2004 03:23 pm, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>Wayne Maeda wrote:
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>>>On Friday 20 August 2004 02:49 pm, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>>>Wayne Maeda wrote:
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>>>>>On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:06 pm, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>>>>If you can get it into CSV format, just import it into Scribus. The new
>>>>>>text importer has a csv filter.
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>>>>>>As for DB stuff.. its all planned.. :) Time time time
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>>>>>I just imported a CSV file into Scribus. Now I'm trying to format the
>>>>>data. How does one do a search and replace on a paragraph (carraige
>>>>>return)? What character do I use to represent the CR? I guess I really
>>>>>should import the CSV into Open Office first and format it in there.
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>>>>In Scribus, carriage returns seem to be Ctrl-E -- that's what emacs
>>>>shows me.
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>>>>Greg
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>>>How does one enter a Ctrl-E in Scribus' search and replace function? I
>>>press the control key and the capital "E" and nothing gets entered in the
>>>box.
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>>So where is the text you're trying to edit? In a text frame?  Have you
>>tried just using Story Editor?
>>What does CR look like in the imported file?
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>My text is in a text frame. I tried the story editor but it does not have a 
>search and replace function. There is no CR representation in the file. Same 
>as if you typed in the text by hand and hit CR. There is no character 
>representing the CR in the text (I can't see any). But I know it's there 
>because I just entered it (return key).
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You may well end up editing it with something else, then importing to 
Scribus.  Try Googling CSV for hints -- there is something at the IMF 
(of all places) that talks about editing CSV files to replace the 
commas:   http://www.imf.org/external/help/csv.htm

Greg