[scribus] Tagging text for styles.

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

The idea of tags in a text file is new to me.  However, I can see how I
might use that concept in some of my work.  Like John Culleton, I would be
interested in knowing the parameters of tag usage.  Given that I have been
introduced to them now, and given I may attempt to use them successfully,
after putting in the effort to implement tags in imported text, it only
makes sense that there be some guidelines for their use.  Why would we
suggest that trial be the only format for learning any feature of Scribus?
While I realize developer resources are limited, I also realize it was a
developer or developers who included the feature into the Scribus feature
set.  It almost sounds like some are sorry they did?

John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  USA
editor at sera.org



On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:55 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com>wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:36:33 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
>
> > On 03/30/2012 11:35 AM, john Culleton wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:05:09 +0200
> > > ale rimoldi<ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>  wrote:
> > >
> > >> hi dcat,
> > >>
> > >>> All the examples cited use a two character tag (reminiscent of
> > >>> HTML, TeX  or Groff), such as \H1, P1 etc. Are the tags limited
> > >>> to two characters?
> > >>>
> > >>> Must the first be alpha and the second numeric?
> > >>
> > >> have you tried?
> > >>
> > >> ciao
> > >> a.l.e
> > >>
> > >
> > > Well I can experiment with different combos such as \Chapter and
> > > \section (two I use in the Context variant of TeX) but it would
> > > save time if someone stated the actual rules. I note that unlike
> > > TeX there is no space between the tag and the text, so I assume
> > > that there are limits to the tag format. Otherwise tag \Li and
> > > tag \Lia could cause confusion.
> > >
> >
> > It's entirely possible you're the only one concerned about this
> > issue. It may be that whoever wrote the code for tags didn't even
> > consider it.
> >
> > The reason is that it would make most sense for a tag to be short, so
> > that there is less typing and less room for error when putting tags
> > into a text file.
> >
> > I have no objection to someone testing
> > \averylongtagindicatingsomecomplexconcept, but if it doesn't work, I
> > don't think it will be a hot item on the bug list.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> So there are no rules on length and format? I may try to import
> some text passages that have previously been formatted for TeX so
> my question was not an idle one.
>
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