[scribus] Tagging CHARACTER text for styles.

[a.l.e]

hi richard,
>
>> Applying character styles to text, alongside an easy way to group
>> images with a text caption, are the two items I most missed while
>> using Scribus 1.4.n Otherwise a pleasant to use and *reliable* piece
>> of software.  The paragraph styles seem to be applied like a broad
>> brush stroke, delineated by having a start-tag and an end of
>> paragraph (or start of new one). Very useful, but frustratingly
>> blunt, handling only headers, sub-headers and entire paragraphs.
>>
>> It seems to me the CHARACTER styles is an issue of having start and
>> end tags within a block of text. and part of the problem is being
>> able to identify the end tag. Perhaps a couple of suggestions for the
>> tag styling might help get the ball rolling?
>>
>> Next identical (yuk): ...some \c1character styled text\c1 ...
>>
>>      start=\c1
>>      end=\c1
>>
>> Explicit (yuk): ...some \c1-startcharacter styled text\c1-end ...
>>
>>      start=\c1-start
>>      end=\c1-end
>>
>> Bracketed (yuk): ...some \c1(character styled text\c1) ...
>>
>>      start=\c1(
>>      end=\c1)
>>
>> Bracketed enclosed (best?): ...some \c1(character styled text)\c1 ...
>>
>>      start=\c1(
>>      end=)\c1
>>
>> XML-like: ...some <\c1>character styled text</\c1> ...
>>
>>      start=<\c1>
>>      end=</\c1>
>>
>> Other:
>>
>>      ...?
>>
>> Also, it would probably be sensible to disallow nested tags, (and
>> definitely disallow cross-over tags, much like HTML).
>>
>> It is clear this is voluntary open-source software - and long may
>> that continue.
>>
> You also have the option of the story editor. Highlight a string
> of text and then adjust ot italics, bold etc. on the fields and
> icons above the text area.
>
> It would probably make sense to adopt a subset of the TeX tags
> (not LaTeX). Then the string of text to be modified could be
> enclosed in {} brackets. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.
>
> In TeX fully nested tags are OK.
>

importing character styles from html and from odt is planned for 1.6.

basically, not a difficult task, but somebody has to do it...

ciao
a.l.e