[scribus] EOL interpreted as end of paragraph.

[john Culleton]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:59:46 +0200
Jean Ghali <jghali at libertysurf.fr> wrote:

> Le 31/03/2012 18:47, john Culleton a écrit :
> > I note that when importing text prepared in an external editor
> > like Gvim every end of line is interpreted by Scribus text
> > importer as an end of paragraph marker. I have set up Gvim to
> > automatically generate an EOL after I type 72 characters. For a
> > paragraph end I insert a blank line, following the TeX
> > convention. But when I import the text file into Scribus every
> > line becomes a paragraph. 
> 
> This is most likely caused by gvim using line-feed (0x0A) or carriage
> return (0x0D) as line separator :
> - this way of doing is ancient and non portable as the interpretation
> of those characters is totally platform dependent
> - this method is not unicode compliant : for unicode those characters
> are both paragraph separators, with the exception that 0x0D0A
> sequence must be interpreted as only one paragraph separator instead
> of two
> 
> Unicode has defined non ambiguous and portable characters to use as
> line and paragraph separator :
> - line separator : 0x2028
> (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2028/index.htm)
> - paragraph separator : 0x2029
> (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2029/index.htm)
> 
> In gvim case it should be using 0x2028 character and not the carriage
> return.
> 
> > if I delete all EOL markers in Gvim then Gvim
> > will still wrap the lines visually but may divide lines in the
> > middle of a word to accomplish the visual wrap. That's a bit clumsy.
> 
> This only underlines gvim uses a basic and non unicode compliant line
> breaking algorithm.
> 
> > 
> > HTML does not so interpret an EOL for example. And the blank line
> > convention is followed when typing emails.
> 
> For HTML line feed and carriage-return are equivalent to a space. But
> this is specific to HTML. As most mail programs implement unicode
> line breaking algorithm, text wraps without problems.
> 

TeX has the same convention.

> > 
> > Is there a setting somewhere that prevents Scribus from
> > interpreting an EOL as an end of paragraph marker when importing
> > text? 
> 
> No, because we follow here the unicode guide line about
> interpretation of characters in a word processing context. See
> following link section 4.2 point 2 :
> 
> http://unicode.org/standard/reports/tr13/tr13-5.html#Interpreting%20characters%20in%20text
> 
> "In word processing, interpret any NLF the same as PS."
> 
> That mean 0x0D0A, 0x0A, 0xOD sequences are to be interpreted as
> paragraph separators.
> 
> However as far as i remember we currently do not interpret the new
> unicode line and paragraph separators. This is something we'll have
> to fix at a point. But gvim should be using the proper line separator
> too.
> 
> Jean
> 

I'll try changing Gvim default to unicode and see if that helps. 
If not, may I quote your post on the Vim list? 
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