[scribus] Cut and Paste Oo formatting

[Nigel Ridley]

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:

> 
> Hmmm, in fact I think this wouldn't be of help to me, as I get a lot of 
> texts in .doc format and convert them to .odt to be imported into 
> Scribus, but their layout is always A4 like from a typewriter, and the 
> layout of the papers I produce is with several columns (mostly).
> 
> What I usually do is, I make a hardcopy of the original text and browse 
> through the text in the Scribus editor, changing all hard formattings 
> manually. Admittedly, this is somewhat roundabout.
> 
> But e. g. my mostly used font is splitted into 4 files, so there 
> wouldn't be a way of just saying "make it italics" to Scribus even if it 
> was able to (why did Linotype deliver me such fonts back then - is this 
> the usual way, or have I just made some mistake installing them? Strange 
> enough, some programs show an additional font with all 4 styles in it, 
> some - like Scribus - don't).
> 
> Ok, so what would be necessary to achieve some ease of use is this:
> 
> 1. Basic font familiy definition: Scribus should be able to accept some 
> sort of font definition under one font (family) name like e. g. "this 
> file for standard, this file for italics...". Then, when you choose one 
> font FAMILY and say "italics", the right file is chosen automagically 
> out of this definition.
> 
> 2. Paragraph styles: Scribus then could be able to accept at least the 
> basic font outlines hardly formatted in .odt files. This would help when 
> importing them. In your paragraph style, you would only define the font 
> family, not the specific font file, and maybe one of the styles available.
> 
> 3. To make things finer, one might be able to define replacement 
> formattings like "I don't want underline, but use bold-italics instead" 
> to make sure imported texts from the people who use their text 
> processors like a typewriter will still look acceptable in your layout 
> under Scribus.
> 
> Believe me, I'm getting a lot of texts with even words PARTLY formatted 
> in, say, italics to make a special thing clear (for everyone here on the 
> list not knowing German: In German combined words are written like one 
> single - longer - word, so it's e. g. the second part of a word which is 
> underlined, italics or whatever to stress something).
> 
> Rolf
> 

You could try something similar to this tutorial:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Laying_out_articles

There was another tutorial that I came across with the same idea - but I can't find it anymore :-(

HTH

Blessings,

Nigel

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