[Scribus] Scribus1.3.0 -- paragraph styles in incoming text.

[Howard White]

>I have tried the text filter approach to importing text with tags for paragraph styles but it seems to only allow ASCII text. Therefore paragraph styles are imported but I cannot see a way to use tags for character level style such as italics in the body text.
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>Also, when I tried importing an OpenOffice document which had several paragraph styles, these styles seemed to be largely imported successfully - but where I had used italics in the text this had become roman.
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>My ideal would be to be able to use the text filters in an RTF file and be able to import paragraph styles via tags, and have character styles retained intact.
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Character styles are not *yet* implemented in Scribus -- see the Roadmap on Scribus Public Wiki for a timetable. Therefore tagged character import can't presently work.

In a related matter -- if you or others are familar with regular expressions, it turns out (special thanks to avox on IRC #scribus) that you can use regular expressions not only for search but also for replace in a text filter. I have implemented, among other things, a filter that reasonably intelligently replaces inch marks (") with appropriate open or close double quotes. And I am a total regex nOOb. 

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