[Scribus] Text file markup language

[Riku Leino]

"Aakin N. Patel" <aakin at aakin.net> wrote:
> I have a question.
>
> For several of our longer documents, we tend to break out subjections
> into independant text files, so that different people can work on
> different parts of the document simultaneously. We then include the
> files into the master doc and go through and reformat it accordingly
> each time.
>
> Is there a way we could include a markup language in each text file
> so that the formatting could be preserved as it is incorporated into
> the document? I'm not sure if there is a way to do this easily or not
> at the moment.

Hi, Currently there's a text filter option for importing text files where one 
can use a markup to apply paragraph styles. Once we'll have character styles 
those will be implemented in the filters as well. See a wiki article about 
this at:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Laying_out_articles