<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks, I will convert to plain text and edit with gvim. I probably would have done that in the first place if I have not seen somewhere in the Scribus documentation that using .odt files was the 'preferred' method and I had .odf file that supposedly only use styles & bold & italics for formatting, so I thought they would be perfect.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thank you very much for your help.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div></div><div> -EdK</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Keith<br>e_d_k@yahoo.com</div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> scribus@lists.scribus.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 2, 2013 10:57 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [scribus] how do I strip out unwanted overriding of paragraph styles?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Mon, 02
Sep 2013 10:16:00 -0400<br>Gregory Pittman <<a ymailto="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On 09/02/2013 09:56 AM, Ed Keith wrote:<br>> > I am importing documents from LibraOffice. I was trying to use<br>> > styles to reformat it, when I figured out that it did not matter<br>> > how I set my paragraph styles because all the text properties seem<br>> > to be overridden. For now I have set the text properties in the<br>> > story editor by selecting all the text I want to make a given style<br>> > and setting the text properties to what I want that style to be.<br>> > This is working, but is is unsatisfactory, since changing the<br>> > styles has no effect, I need to reformat each bit of text<br>> > individually as a special case. <br>> > <br>> > Is there some way I can remove all the formatting from a frame
then<br>> > add back in the few places where I want individual words or phrases<br>> > to be bold or italic, but if I change the font used in the<br>> > paragraph style the change will show up in the document? <br>> > <br>> <br>> That last sentence is a bit complicated, but certainly you can select<br>> a frame, then change the style to whatever you want, either a Default<br>> style or one you have created. Look at Properties > Text tab > Style<br>> Settings.<br>> <br>> After that, in Edit Contents mode you can highlight text and then<br>> change some aspect of its style with a Character Style, or even just<br>> à la carte choices from Properties > Text.<br>> <br>> I think maybe you're making a case for just using a plain text editor,<br>> then making/editing styles in Scribus.<br>> <br>> Greg<br>> <br>> ___<br>> Scribus Mailing List: <a
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