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#51
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by Nermander - November 30, 2025, 02:06:40 PM
What you are asking for is almost important. If one author has used direct formatting and another used styles, you are saying the styles should be converted to direct formatting?

I would say you need to set up a workflow where the texts you receive are "cleaned up"/sanitized in some way.

When I worked as the deputy editor for a magazine we made at my job, I set up a whole kit of Word macros to clean up what we got from authors.
#52
Beginner Talk / Re: [SOLVED] Final line in tex...
Last post by arthropod - November 30, 2025, 11:59:04 AM
Quote from: AdmFubar on November 30, 2025, 03:41:20 AMdid you change the font for the whole document? double check the font being used, as it may be back to the Alegreya font. Scribus will default to font set in the default document template. (or current template used) right after hitting return. It can be the single most frustrating quick scribus has

This was it. Thank you so much. The font was displaying the same as the previous pages, but selecting it revealed that it was secretly Alegreya (???) and changing it back fixed the issue.
#53
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by Denis ROUQUIER - November 30, 2025, 11:43:17 AM
Thank you for your answer and thank you for directing me to

 https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6642.msg27393.html

The two questions are about text import but the situations are quite different ; in my case I have absolutely no control over the way authors name and define their styles. Authors are sympathetic but will not enter in technical discussions about styles. So I must be ready to receive texts with a great variety of styles : style names, style content, style application, and direct formatting on the text will change from one file to the next.

(I understand that this protected me from the problem seen by « henrylaw » : the imported styles never had the same name as one of my pre-defined Scribus styles).

In my case only the visual aspect of the text is meaningful ; and in fact only a part of that visual aspect : font, font size, vertical spacing, horizontal alignment as set by the author must be ignored and set according to the  « default-paragraph-style » of Scribus. Only « bold », « italic », « underlined » and « superscrit » must be kept. Right now I do this manually ; I wish it could be automated.

#54
Beginner Talk / Re: Final line in text frame n...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 30, 2025, 03:41:20 AM
did you change the font for the whole document? double check the font being used, as it may be back to the Alegreya font. Scribus will default to font set in the default document template. (or current template used) right after hitting return. It can be the single most frustrating quick scribus has
#55
Text and Typography / Re: Another text formatting qu...
Last post by AdmFubar - November 30, 2025, 03:34:23 AM
most likely the text has an extra return in it hence the blank line.
From the drop down menu select  View/Text Frames and see if Show Control Character is checked, if not select it. back to the text frame. is there a blank line? with just a line break symbol?
#56
Beginner Talk / Re: Final line in text frame n...
Last post by arthropod - November 30, 2025, 02:19:14 AM
Update: it's still happening.

I tried a different font, as stated before, and that temporarily seemed to fix the issue. However, about 80 pages in, it started happening again.

The work I've already done has not changed, thankfully. But the issue is now appearing in any NEW pages I add. Which means I can't finish the project. This is incredibly frustrating. I have not changed my process, or the previously-functional font, which is making me loop back around to the idea of this being a bug.

I just wanted to update this thread in case anyone else is having the same problem and changing the font doesn't work for them either.
#57
Text and Typography / Another text formatting questi...
Last post by Sheba2 - November 29, 2025, 07:29:16 PM
This is a bit perplexing and, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm attaching a screen shot. Now, I made NO spacing changes (to my knowledge) to the text. You will notice the spacing between the two paragraphs at the top (which is actually what I want) and the "spacing" (or lack of) between the two paragraphs below. I searched the options and none made sense to me to fix it. Any clues to how to fix it or why it appears different between top and bottom. By way of more info, the entire document has the lower (no) spacing between paragraphs. I use Scribus 1.6.4 on a MacBook.
#58
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by Aleks100 - November 29, 2025, 12:59:37 PM
Have you tried to export text as markdown, check it if everything is fine (delete # headers), and then to import it in Scribus?
#59
Showcase / Re: Importing text only but wi...
Last post by a.l.e - November 29, 2025, 08:52:27 AM
If I understand you correctly, this has been discussed recently in this thread:

Importing LO Writer text without over-writing existing styles
https://forums.scribus.net/index.php/topic,6642.msg27393.html

Last Thursday, with the help of a few people at our local Hackergarten, I had a second look at the ODT importer and managed to find one of the switches that would allow to import the text and apply the formatting from the Scribus document.

But there is a lot more work to be done.
We will see, if I succeed.
#60
General Discussion / Re: Do you use cloud storage s...
Last post by AmyD3 - November 29, 2025, 07:47:38 AM
That's a really interesting point about the "third party doctrine" regarding cloud storage! It definitely makes you think about who really "owns" the files.