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Scribus => Text and Typography => Topic started by: Lynn on February 24, 2026, 07:02:47 PM

Title: Picking the ideal text importer
Post by: Lynn on February 24, 2026, 07:02:47 PM
My current process in Scribus is this:

There are downsides of working directly from html are as follows:

I've considered the libreoffice importer, but that would bring in far more information than I want. I don't want to retain any formatting from the original except bold, italics and the marking where the paragraph styles are.

Markdown automatically imports the bold and italic text as character styles, but retains all my other issues with HTML and adds a pandoc conversion step.

Theoretically, the text filter importer would work perfectly to map my "header" styles to paragraph styles without adding excess bolds. But unfortunately there's no way to set character styles in the text filter importer. I suppose I could regex the XML after importing with another script.

Any suggestions on whether I'm missing the perfect importer for my purposes, or should I keep on with html for now?