On 02/10/2018 09:52 AM, Paul Deverson wrote: > 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
