[scribus] Trouble importing csv files

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>wrote:

> On 04/20/2013 10:06 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > You might try playing with this style.
> >
>
> Plan B:
>
> ************************************
>
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>
>

Greg,

Thanks.  I had misunderstood what you meant the first time.  I did put a
tab stop at 2 points from the left and that exhausted the unnecessary tab
that Scribus inserts at the first of each imported line.

I find it hard to believe that Scribus inserts that artificial comma at the
beginning of each line when one imports a .csv file.  Sure that is an error
and not some feature.   I would have thought that would be a big enough
error that it would have been corrected, unless, of course, it came up in
the latest versions.

But, the knowledge of what happens sure makes much clearer a few issues
I've experienced before that caused me not to use comma separated files in
the past.

John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown USA
editor at sera.org
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