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+# Authors: see git history
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2022 Authors
+# Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3.0 or later.  See the file LICENSE for details.
+
+import inkex
+
+from ..i18n import _
+from .base import InkstitchExtension
+
+
+class PaletteSplitText(InkstitchExtension):
+    # Splits sublines of text into it's own text elements in order to color them with the color picker
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        InkstitchExtension.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
+        self.arg_parser.add_argument("-l", "--line-height", type=int, default=6, dest="line_height")
+
+    def effect(self):
+        if not self.svg.selection:
+            inkex.errormsg(_("Please select one or more text elements to split lines."))
+            return
+
+        line_height = self.options.line_height
+
+        for text in self.svg.selection.get(inkex.elements.TextElement):
+            parent = text.getparent()
+            content = text.get_text()
+            lines = content.split('\n')
+            lines.reverse()
+            style = text.get('style')
+            x = text.get('x')
+            y = text.get('y')
+            y = float(y) + (len(lines) - 1) * line_height
+            for line in lines:
+                element = inkex.TextElement()
+                element.text = line
+                element.set('style', style)
+                element.set('x', x)
+                element.set('y', str(y))
+                y = float(y) - line_height
+                parent.insert(0, element)
+            parent.remove(text)