[scribus] Tagging CHARACTER text for styles.

[Richard Foley]

> 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.
> 
I *really* don't want to have to use a mouse on my text when I import it from
multiple chapters, multiple times.

> 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. 
> 
Sounds good to me. I was just trying to get the discussion up in the air :-)

> In TeX fully nested tags are OK. 
> 
I would expect that with any sensible solution. But, again, if it's easier and
quicker to implement it robustly without the nesting, that's still a winner for
me. Just because importing character styles of nearly ANY kind would be useful
to me.

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 08:51:13AM -0400, john Culleton wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:09:42 +0200
> Richard Foley <rich.inud at naktiv.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> 
> 
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