[scribus] auto import mass text

[John Culleton]

On Monday 05 July 2010 10:51:33 a.l.e wrote:
> hi john,
>
> >>> we are completing a graphic novel only with Free
> >
> > Software and then
> >
> >>> with Scribus ;-)
> >>>
> >>> ..the pages are 89 with image and moore  moore 
text..
> >>>
> >>> for convenience we export the text on plain text and
> >
> > then we adjust it..
> >
> >>> once corrected the text, there is a way to 
automatically
> >
> > re-import it?
> >
> >> i'm not sure it's a good idea to work that way...
> >>
> >> well, it will work if you are not formatting your text 
more
> >
> > than using a
> >
> >> couple of paragraph styles. and even then...
> >>
> >>
> >> i think that scribus needs to be enable a lecturing
> >
> > workflow, but it's
> >
> >> not there yet... for now, i fear that you'd better do the
> >
> > corrections in
> >
> >> scribus itself.
> >>
> >>
> >> or do all the editing before importing the text into 
scribus.
> >>
> >>
> >> ciao
> >> a.l.e
> >
> > On recent versions of Scribus you can use the LaTeX 
exit.
>
> can you elaborate on this?
>
> latex for a graphic novel?
>
> ehmmm...
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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You can do anything in TeX and almost anything in the LaTeX 
variant.  The amount of labor required is another matter. For 
a graphic novel and TeX I would use either plain TeX or 
Context and not LaTeX.  But chances are I would just use 
Scribus or maybe Inkscape. 

As I understand it a graphic novel is a glorified comic book.
In a comic the text is usually hand lettered by the creator.
If there are larger amounts of text then the facilities of 
Scribus should be sufficient by themselves. 

Can you post a sample page somewhere?
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
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