[scribus] Default font for Story editor.

[John Culleton]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:11:56 +1000
Owen <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:01:43 -0400
> John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> 
> > Scribus 1.4.6 and other Scribuses tend to
> > default to the first available font in
> > alphabetic order. In my case this is
> > aGaramond italic. I can override this in the
> > Style editor, but is there a way to define my
> > default font globally, i.e. always there when
> > I fire up a new session?
> > 
> > And a related question: how do I eliminate the
> > many unneeded fonts and have that deletion
> > last through multiple recompiles? All those
> > Middle Eastern and Indian etc. fonts are of
> > interest to some users but I work exclusively
> > in English. I am thinking of a solution where
> > Scribus looks in in a directory other
> > than /usr/safe/fonts. Scrolling through
> > hundreds of fonts over and over when is no
> > fun.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Sometimes we make mistakes, like install
> Docbook, and end up getting 2000+ unwanted
> fonts being recognized by Scribus.
> 
> After you have unticked the first hundred and
> realize that you have another two hours to go,
> you ask, is there a better way?
> 
> SED to the rescue!
> 
> Go to your .scribus directory and run;
> 
> sed 's/<Font\ Use="1"/<Font\
> Use="0"/'scribus150.rc > new_rc_file and then
> (after inspection of new_rc_file) move the
> new_rc_file to scribus150.rc
> 
> Now you problem has been changed to going
> through fonts and selecting maybe the 20 or 30
> you want to use.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> Owen
> 
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I created a script with these contents:

sed 's/<Font\ Use="1"/<Font\Use="0"/'scribus150.rc > new_rc_file

I ran it in .scribus in my home directory.
It blew up with this message:

sed: -e expression #1, char 33: unknown option to `s'

Character 33 is an = sign.


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