[scribus] Creating multi- page magazine

[a.l.e]

On 10/8/12 3:02 PM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote:
> On 10/07/2012 02:48 PM, wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote:
>>> Ciao
>>> It would be like haven to have the ability to import into Scribus 
>>> text with such which retain its formatting, such things as Italics, 
>>> Bold, Underlining and if possible Subscript and Superscript and 
>>> Indenting. Preferably from OpenOffice.
>>>
>>> I have a big 200 + book coming from Canada with all this formats in 
>>> it. I can foresee me making a some mistakes and having to send my 
>>> work to the client in PDF and then editing in Scribus, able days to 
>>> do so.
>>>
>>> The to be able to import to do final edit in OpenOffice.
>>>
>> The way to do this is to refrain from doing any text editing in 
>> Scribus. Make your various styles, etc., in LibreOffice (or 
>> OpenOffice), and they should be successfully imported with the text. 
>> When you proofread and find errors, go back to the ODT file and edit 
>> in LO/OO, then import again. Of course with 200 pages, you will want 
>> to break this up anyway, but certainly re-importing a huge ODT file 
>> would be a task which might rightfully provoke anxiety for the layout.
>>
>> Having said this, you may still need to tweak styles. I don't think 
>> that LO/OO can match the precision of font size, for example (at 
>> least it won't show any value smaller than tenths of a point). For 
>> the layout of a book, there probably will be some places where a line 
>> or some words might need some very subtle adjustments to fit or for 
>> aesthetic reasons.
>>
>> Greg
>
> A *BIG +1* from me on this subject!!!!
>
> But a couple of points ....
>
>  * But why can't the 'Edit Text' option, (after right-clicking a text
>    frame), be made to work like the 'Edit Image' option for a Image
>    Frame? (With the same way of setting the program you want to use for
>    this).
>
>  * The above would also get round the missing Spell Checker in Scribus
>    at the moment which is a major problem IMHO!!!
>
>  * Last of all, (and I have brought this up before and don't accept the
>    reasons for not doing it). Why can't we have an _OPTION_, (note I
>    say _OPTION_ so you don't HAVE to use it!!), to anchor a graphic to
>    its text!!!??? To me this is another major missing feature. Every
>    time you edit or add some text you have to go through the WHOLE file
>    after that point and re-align the pics. Do that a few times with a
>    200 page document and it drives you mad!!
>


why can't you have all this?

because somebody has to program it!

and before that, somebody has to specify how (EXACTLY!) it should work...


a/ personally, i think that we will get a way to synchronize a text box 
with it's source (under certain circumstances) somehow soon (i would say 
in the next year?)
most of the pieces for building it are there...

b/ the same holds for anchoring pictures (and other frames) to text... 
most of the code for it has been programmed. once the footnotes are in 
the main code, i believe that somebody will add it.
same estimation: it should happen in the next year...

and if you want to help it happen, go here http://www.scribus-ece.info/ 
and click generously on the flattr button :-)
(the direct link being 
http://flattr.com/thing/921356/Scribus-ECE-unofficial-release-with-enhancements)

... or sit down for a couple of days and work on some specifications for 
those two features...

ciao
a.l.e