[scribus] Markup support for the Story Editor

[Gregory Pittman]

On 05/04/2017 01:39 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" wrote:
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 02. Mai 2017 um 21:40 Uhr
>> Von: "wagner jussiani" <wantjuss at yahoo.com.br>
>> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>> Betreff: [scribus] Markup support for the Story Editor
>>
>> Hey, All:
>>
>> What about markup support for  Scribus? This thought ocurred me when I recently saw multimarkdown. If I could define some elements of text formatation (fonts, paragraphs, pages, columns, tables, and others) in a appropriate field in the Story Editor (or anywhere else, like menu edit styles), linking them to markup symbols, then I could write a text in another word processor with markup and Scribus could apply the text formatation associated with each markup symbol  in a automatic way.
>>
>> What do you think about?
>>
>> Wagner
>>
> 
> Hi Wagner,
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> We already have something like this. It's called the Text Filter. You can trigger it via the text import dialogue, where you have to select "Text Filter" in the "Importer" drop-down list.
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> Unfortunately, this code is more than a decade old and hasn't been updated ever since, which is why it only covers paragraph styles. If you want to get your hands dirty, feel free to do so.
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> What needs to be done is the follwing:
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> - Enable the use of character styles;
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> - Enable the replacement of characters, e.g., "--" with a real n or m dash;
> 

For this, there is the en+emdash.py script I wrote. One of the reasons
for the script is the difficulty of entering Unicode characters using
the Find/Replace method.

Greg