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Community => Showcase => Topic started by: Denis ROUQUIER on November 28, 2025, 06:19:01 PM

Title: Importing text only but with a bit of "bold" ans "italic"
Post by: Denis ROUQUIER on November 28, 2025, 06:19:01 PM
Hello

I am currently preparing the second Scribus-based issue of our journal (the first went fine).
Everything is about OK ; I still feel a bit uneasy with text import.

I have tried several methods :
- copy-paste
- import (text only)
- import not-text-only

I have seen several problems :
- « Ctrl-space » characters become ordinary space characters   (typical of copy-paste from word) ;
- missing space characters here and there (from word, random, difficult to reproduce) ;
- local changes (like one word in bold or one sentence in italic) are not reproduced ;
  this is normal with copy-paste or with text-import-text-only, but it is a problem for me ;
- several new styles created (but not used ??) ; this is normal with « import text not-text-only »
  but I really want to keep the list of styles under control.

I wish Sribus could offer a text import function with the following features :
- no new style is created
- no existing style is modified
- the imported text appears in « default paragraph style »
- the local changes (like one word in bold or one sentence in italic) are reproduced.

The nearest I can go to this is by using the following method :
- start with a writer text (or with a writer version of a word text) ;
- use import text (not text only ; not prefix style names ...) ;
- click once in the frame and apply « default paragraph style » without bracket
- delete the newly created styles (this may be shared between several imports).

All this seems a bit complex, and I might have to use the old method (import text only, and carefully read the imported text to manually reproduce the local changes, like one word in bold or one sentence in italic).