[scribus] Tagging CHARACTER text for styles.

[Richard Foley]

> importing character styles from html and from odt is planned for 1.6.
> 
That's a long way off, huh? 

> basically, not a difficult task, but somebody has to do it...
>
I'm only a poor little ol' perl programmer, (not python/c/whatever), otherwise
I'd offer to help.

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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 02:59:56PM +0200, a.l.e wrote:
> hi richard,
> >
> >>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.
> >
> 
> importing character styles from html and from odt is planned for 1.6.
> 
> basically, not a difficult task, but somebody has to do it...
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
> 
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