[Scribus] Text from database

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sat Aug 21 03:15:27 CEST 2004


Wayne Maeda wrote:

>On Friday 20 August 2004 02:49 pm, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>Wayne Maeda wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 19 August 2004 04:06 pm, Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>>If you can get it into CSV format, just import it into Scribus. The new
>>>>text importer has a csv filter.
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>>>>As for DB stuff.. its all planned.. :) Time time time
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>>>I just imported a CSV file into Scribus. Now I'm trying to format the
>>>data. How does one do a search and replace on a paragraph (carraige
>>>return)? What character do I use to represent the CR? I guess I really
>>>should import the CSV into Open Office first and format it in there.
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>>In Scribus, carriage returns seem to be Ctrl-E -- that's what emacs
>>shows me.
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>>Greg
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>How does one enter a Ctrl-E in Scribus' search and replace function? I press 
>the control key and the capital "E" and nothing gets entered in the box.
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In emacs, Ctrl-x Ctrl-q, then if you type Ctrl-e it will be entered.  
It's a pain if you have to do a lot of them.  I wrote a mini-perl 
program once to do a whole file.

Greg




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