[scribus] OO styles (from ODT) once again

[Louis Desjardins]

2011/2/2 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>

> On Wednesday 02 February 2011 09:08:30 Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > On 02/02/2011 08:30 AM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> > > Þann mið 2.feb 2011 13:18, skrifaði Cezary Grabski:
> > >>> It is a feature.
> > >>>
> > >>> Perhaps save your odt file as text then import the text?
> > >>
> > >> No... It not solving my problem as I will lost bolds, italics
> > >> etc this "feature" is maybe usable if you work with one ODT
> > >> document, but in my
> > >> case I import itno Scribus doc many (more than 20) ODT files.
> > >> After that I
> > >> have aprox 30-40 additional styles!
> > >>
> > >> I must try to add feature for omit styles from ODT file.
> > >>
> > >> cezaryece
> > >
> > > My poor memory recalls a similar subject not very long time ago,
> > > I think the solution was to use custom styles in OOo/LibO to make
> > > the italics and bold. That is you make a style *bold* and another
> > > /italics/ - Scribus imports all the ODT styles, you throw away
> > > all those except your bold/italics styles.
> >
> > some minimal testing in which I created no styles only produced an
> > equivalent of the default style from oowriter.
> > You might check in oowriter under Format > Styles and Formatting to
> > see what styles you have applied. If you haven't applied any, they
> > shouldn't end up being created by Scribus.
> >
> > As Sveinn suggests, if you don't use styles to make bold and
> > italics character style changes, you shouldn't get exported styles
> > to Scribus.
> >
> > Greg
> >
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> Here is a crazy idea that might work, using Linux.
>

Everything below is crazy and I love it!

It is a perfect demonstration of computer power lots of users tend to be
unaware of.

There is definitely a need for a cool “text tidy” process.

User definable filters. Super Find & Replace function. Automated
replacements. Etc.

We have a bug report for this somewhere.
Here.
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1752

Louis



> 1. save the file as LaTeX from OO Writer.
> 2. Using Gvim editor, delete all the frontmatter stuff before the
> actual content begins.
> 3. Convert \textbf{...} and textit{...} to something Scribus will
> recognize as a Scribus style. Terminate each such string with a
> carriage return instead of  a } This can be done by a mass command
> also. AFAIK.
> 4.Then Identify the other latex commands in the text and delete them
> one command at a time using mass changes. In other words to delete all
> \par commands do something like:
> :%s/\\par/\r\r/g
> This puts a blank line between paragraphs.
> 5. Delete by mass change all those unneeded { and }. OO Writer fills
> the file with hundreds (thousands?) of such pairs.
>
>
> This method depends in large part on the users familiarity with the
> Gvim mass change commands, including the substitute (s) and / (find)
> commands and the  g (global) and c (conditional) suffixes.
>
> Anyhow that is how I would do it.  The Sed command which comes with
> Unix-like systems could also be used, or Awk etc.
>
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