[Scribus] lively debate

[Craig Bradney]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:38, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Steve Herrick wrote:
> > Quoting Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>: 
> >   
> > 
> >>It would seem there could be some kind of cake-and-eat-it-too solution  
> >>to this, such as having each text box link to an external file, and  
> >>retain that link, so that you could save from the text box to an  
> >>external file, or reload from the file to the text box. 
> > 
> >  
> > The problem I see with this is, where would you store information like kerning, font, size, 
> > linespacing, etc.? In the original file, or in a Scribus file? 
> >  
> > Steve 
> 
> I see what you mean, but emacs could certainly handle all the tags even 
> if they were exported to a text file. It would sort of amount to having 
> a more digestible .sla mini-file.
> 
> It could also lead, perhaps, to a better visual design of .sla files. 
> Right now, they're obviously not generated to be easily read by humans, 
> with all the tags smashed together and the use of "^E" for carriage 
> return mixed in with the text.
> 

We expect to be bringing new features after 1.2 that will bring about
changes to the .sla file format. This will also bring in an easier to
read, more "XML-based" format (which is a point to note for those that
have asked in the past about format DTDs etc).

Craig
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