[scribus] Text styles

[Paul Deverson]

Hi,

I'm new to Scribus and wonder whether it's possible to create a text
style from some already formatted text rather than creating the style
and then applying it to text?

Paul.

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[Gregory Pittman]

Post by Paul Deverson
Hi,
I'm new to Scribus and wonder whether it's possible to create a text
style from some already formatted text rather than creating the style
and then applying it to text?

The short answer is no.
This has been brought up a number of times, and would indeed be a nice
feature.
Looking at Scripter commands, there just aren't enough pieces there to
create anything substantial. You have access to font, font size, font
color and shading, linespacing, and linespacing mode, but that's about
it, and not nearly enough to make this scriptable.

One thing you can do and is worth thinking about is that you can import
text styles from some other document. They might even be blank documents
except for the styles. If there are certain combinations of style
features you use quite a bit, this can be worth it even if you might
have to slightly modify them after import.

Generally speaking, this is a good reason to get into the habit of
creating styles when you work, so that first of all, you become familiar
with the mechanics of how to do it, but also so that you develop a trove
of styles in old documents you can use again.

Greg


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[Paul Deverson]

Thanks, Greg. It would be nice but it's not the end of the world!

I like your idea of keeping a 'library' of styles and then importing them.

Thanks a lot,

Paul

Post by Gregory Pittman

Post by Paul Deverson
Hi,
I'm new to Scribus and wonder whether it's possible to create a text
style from some already formatted text rather than creating the style
and then applying it to text?

The short answer is no.
This has been brought up a number of times, and would indeed be a nice
feature.
Looking at Scripter commands, there just aren't enough pieces there to
create anything substantial. You have access to font, font size, font
color and shading, linespacing, and linespacing mode, but that's about
it, and not nearly enough to make this scriptable.
One thing you can do and is worth thinking about is that you can import
text styles from some other document. They might even be blank documents
except for the styles. If there are certain combinations of style
features you use quite a bit, this can be worth it even if you might
have to slightly modify them after import.
Generally speaking, this is a good reason to get into the habit of
creating styles when you work, so that first of all, you become familiar
with the mechanics of how to do it, but also so that you develop a trove
of styles in old documents you can use again.
Greg
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[JLuc]

Post by Paul Deverson
I like your idea of keeping a 'library' of styles and then importing them.

You can create your own documents templates,
(menu : File > Save as template)
each of which can have its own style definitions

JLuc


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