[scribus] Text styles

[Paul Deverson]

Thanks, Greg. It would be nice but it's not the end of the world!

I like your idea of keeping a 'library' of styles and then importing them.

Thanks a lot,

Paul



On 02-10-2018 10:39 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 02/10/2018 09:52 AM, Paul Deverson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to Scribus and wonder whether it's possible to create a text
>> style from some already formatted text rather than creating the style
>> and then applying it to text?
>>
> The short answer is no.
> This has been brought up a number of times, and would indeed be a nice
> feature.
> Looking at Scripter commands, there just aren't enough pieces there to
> create anything substantial. You have access to font, font size, font
> color and shading, linespacing, and linespacing mode, but that's about
> it, and not nearly enough to make this scriptable.
>
> One thing you can do and is worth thinking about is that you can import
> text styles from some other document. They might even be blank documents
> except for the styles. If there are certain combinations of style
> features you use quite a bit, this can be worth it even if you might
> have to slightly modify them after import.
>
> Generally speaking, this is a good reason to get into the habit of
> creating styles when you work, so that first of all, you become familiar
> with the mechanics of how to do it, but also so that you develop a trove
> of styles in old documents you can use again.
>
> Greg
>
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