[Scribus] automatic TOC

[Gregory Pittman]

VAN?K Petr wrote:

>I've got some ideas about it. Stay tuned....
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>petr
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: scribus-bounces at nashi.altmuehlnet.de [mailto:scribus-bounces at nashi.altmuehlnet.de] On Behalf Of Thomas R. Koll
>Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:31 AM
>To: Scribus Mailinglist
>Subject: [Scribus] automatic TOC
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>Hi there,
>I'm planning to move from OOo to Scribus for publishing a weekly online-mag [1], but my farer target is a monthly print magazine, a much better reason to use a good DTP-software (although I'v published a book using OOo, only CMYK-conversion cost me some bucks).
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>I've asked around at IRC and answer was that there's no automatic TOC yet, so I'm offering 25 US Dollar for the one (or team) who writes a plugin which renders me a TOC. My idea is to use the line-style, set it to "heading 1" and process that via a script.
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Perl may eventually be able to help with tasks like this, aside from 
anything Petr can do with Python. The problem that I had in the past 
with perl was that Scribus' xml-like format fails with the xml parser 
module, at least partly because of the use of Ctrl-E for newline in text 
frames.
Yet, we are promised xml-compliant files in the future. Making them 
xml-compliant will allow the use of a lot of xml tools.

Greg