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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0007080 | Scribus | Story Editor / Text Frames | public | 2008-06-08 16:47 | 2008-06-08 16:47 |
| Reporter | Hellstorm | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.3.5svn | ||||
| Summary | 0007080: Support for xml:lang when importing Text from XML files | ||||
| Description | If I have different languages and writing systems in a text file, a plain text file as the source of importing the text won’t do the job. For example, I have a text which has a mixed text in English, German, German Blackletter and Chinese. English and German won’t be a problem, because you can use the same font for it. Chinese needs a different font, but at least it has seperate code points. But Blackletter does not have seperate fonts. In HTML, i would do this this way: <p xml:lang="en">This is english <span xml:lang="de">und das Deutsch</span>, <span xml:lang="de-Latf">Das ist Deut?ch in Fraktur</span>, <span="zh-Hant">????</span> and he would select the appropriate fonts. If i import a text file in Scribus, I would have to select for each word a appropriate font or character style. What if Scribus could do the same? Either, I think it would be good if Scribus would offer a standard XML schema, which offers the markup features needed for typography (font, font size, and so on; maybe like HTML); or the user could write his own xml file and define, which tags are which actions in Scribus. I think, the first one would be easier. Also, this would be great because Scribus would then know which different hyphenation rules are to be applied. | ||||
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