[Scribus] Looking for certain scripting functions

Eilert eilert-sprachen
Thu Dec 9 08:38:40 CET 2004


Hi,

thanks for the link. But even here, I can't find something useful for 
this kind of work.

>>the website and wondered if there is a GetParagraphText() and a 
>>GetParagraphStyle() function or something like that enabling me to 
>>identify a certain paragraph and its style in a text frame.

>>these texts. Very easy if you have such functions for that.
> not so easy, believe me ;)

Not so easy to implement such functions, or not so easy to apply them?

My idea was just to make two loops:

browse all frames
	browse all paragraphs
		if paragraph's style == theOneI'mLookingFor
			getText of this paragraph
			getPageNumber of this frame
			add as new entry to table of contents

I have no idea how styles and paragraphs are stored in Scribus, but once 
you have a getParagraphStyle() and getParagraphText() and a way of 
jumping from one frame to the next and from one paragraph to the next, 
what else would you need?

> but stay tuned - I've got LoC workaround for Scribus 1.2x in progress.

:-) What's LoC? Why workaround?

> It works hardcoded in my devel-desktop. Now I need to find time to
> stabilize it. (But the time, you know...)

Yes, time... :-) But that's the advantage over commercial software. So 
many projects have been spoiled by an impatient marketing - best example 
is $THEBIGEVAL in Redmond :-)

Rolf





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