[scribus] Justification (mainly)

[Gregory Pittman]

On 03/05/2012 05:18 AM, Thor Ewing wrote:
> From: Gregory Pittman
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:04 PM
>>
>> On 03/04/2012 04:18 AM, Thor Ewing wrote:
>> > Dear Listmembers,
>> >
>> > Less drastic for me as a user, but still rather irritating is that
>> when > I “Get text” from HTML, it randomly omits some characters and
>> white > spaces. I suspect that this might be a bug, but there could be
>> another > explanation.
>> >
>>
>> Not sure what ends up missing, but Scribus doesn't handle all HTML
>> tags well, so perhaps there were some characters lost because of that.
>>
>> It usually can manage bold, strong, and italics, sometimes certain
>> font characteristics, but I wouldn't advise importing from HTML on a
>> regular basis. You might do better to import to Open Office and
>> converting there before importing to Scribus.
>>
>> Greg
>
> Hi Greg
>
> I've been working with a document which was prepared in Word 2003. I'm
> now working with Word 2007.
> When I get text from Word formats (DOC or DOCX) it loses all formatting,
> so I tried saving it as an HTML file. It keeps the italics nicely, but
> loses occasional white spaces between words. I've looked at the source
> code and can't see anything odd about the lost spaces.
> I've also tried saving the document as an Open Office file from Word
> 2007 (I haven't tried installing Open Office) but it still comes up
> without formatting.
>
> My document has a lot of foreign words in italics and it's a pain to
> format it all again, so I'd like to do it automatically if possible. But
> it's also a pain if I have to go through and add in new white spaces.
>
I was thinking perhaps you could import your HTML to OpenOffice or 
LibreOffice, then save from there as ODT. I have no experience with Word 
conversion to ODF. Inside LibreOffice, the most reliable means for 
importing into Scribus is to create Styles in LibreOffice.

Greg