[scribus] Cut and Paste Oo formatting

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Nigel Ridley schrieb:
> 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
> 

Thank you Nigel for that link. This will be interesting for me when 
writing articles, maybe also for our pastor, but I think way too 
complicated for all the other guys sending me texts... :-)

Guess in most cases I'll just have to be happy that they know how to 
type around in their word processor and how to e-mail me their texts.

Regards

Rolf