some simple basic standard text handling pls

[Big Frank]

thats the point
i dont want it to
the options i would like to see are:

invert case (ctrl w)
upper case
lower case
sentance case
capitalize

any half-decent word processor has this
if you have to type your documents in a word processor
and then past into xara
it kind of defeats the purpose of having a dtp page & layout app

[StevenWWinters]

if you have to type your documents in a word processor and then past into xara it kind of defeats the purpose of having a dtp page & layout app

+1

[tonylondon]

The DTP work flow I'm most familiar with is where contributors type their stories in Word and submit them to the editor. Once approved someone else lays them out and applies the necessary styling. Xara is not intended as a substitute for a word processor, so far as I am aware.

[mwenz]

The DTP work flow I'm most familiar with is where contributors type their stories in Word and submit them to the editor. Once approved someone else lays them out and applies the necessary styling. Xara is not intended as a substitute for a word processor, so far as I am aware.

I'm with Tony on this.

Only once or twice since 1989 have I composed content in a page layout application. However, I have done so no matter the vector application for one-page posters, banners and the like. I don't think that I have ever had case problems either way.

Mike

[StevenWWinters]

There are other workflows however. And there are also corrections made once in the DTP app.

In any event, these are not biggies, but they wouldn't be that difficult to implement either...

[Big Frank]

There are other workflows however

+1

[amoore]

Throughout 26 years of DTP, I have routinely composed the text directly in my DTP application (primarily Corel Ventura). That includes thousands of pages of software documentation, plus marketing materials and all kinds of other documents. I have rarely gotten content from someone else in Word files. When I have, I always run the text through an ASCII editor to strip it of all Word formatting and behind-the-scenes baggage. I don't even paste text from one Word document into another Word document without doing the ASCII routine first. I've been bitten too many times by Word's "peculiarities".

Similarly, I compose text directly in XDP. If I'm going to paste from anything, it's a txt file.