[scribus] Tagging text for styles.

[john Culleton]

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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