[scribus] Use API to Clone Style

[Matt Miller]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022, at 11:19, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 2/4/22 12:40, Matt Miller wrote:
>> I was hoping to use the API to clone several paragraph and character styles and then change just a couple attributes. However I can't see any way to do that in the API. I don't even see an API for getting the attributes of a style. Am I missing something?
>> 
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Yes, you're right, you can't change attributes of an existing style. 
> You can get a list of existing styles, and create styles.
>
> What you want to do is easier outside of Scripter. Just Edit > Styles, 
> and then pick the style you wish to edit. Note that you can also import 
> styles from another document - this might be a form of cloning. When 
> you create a style, you can specify which style it is based on, which 
> is in essence cloning too.

Yeah, I was able to manually clone and tweak 24 styles by the time I got back to checking for a reply to my question!

Thanks for confirming.

>
> Greg
>
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