On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I think of Lyx as a word processor on steroids - a word processor because > > it is continuous text. In contrast Scribus is a design app where each page > > is a discrete object and text is always in a frame, so it does not > > automatically flow from page to page (unless you tell it to). Many > > projects could be done in either one with equal facility; but the > > fundamental concepts behind the way they work are completely different. In > > my experience you like one or you like the other; few like them both. > > I strongly disagree with your initial statement. LyX is a GUI front end to > LaTeX which is a markup/macro language for the TeX typesetting engine. The > focus is on text-centric documents, but tables and graphics are easily > incorporated. The author does not need to futz with document or page layout; > tracking styles for headings; hyphenation; cross-references; tables of > contents, figures, and tables; or indices. Want to change from a report > style to an article style? One change in the document setup dialog box and > it's a completely different appearance. The writer focuses on content. > > Scribus is a great page layout application which is more graphic-oriented > than text-oriented. Sure, you can write a book with it but that's not its > forte. Brochures, magazines, newspapers, and the like which have layouts > designed to grab attention are best created with scribus rather than a word > processor or LaTeX. You have read something into what I said, or at least I didn't make something clear. (1) Suppose you have a document in Lyx that is currently 100 pages. You insert a table in the middle of page 2. By default all the text will move down on all the pages. (2) Suppose you have a document of 100 pages in Scribus. You add a table to the middle of page 2. By default none of the other pages are affected because each page is a discrete object containing only the objects within it. (1) is how a word processor operates. (2) is how a page layout application operates. There are lots of other strengths/weaknesses that are different as well, but that is what I was trying to get across when I said "the fundamental concepts behind the way they work are completely different." And that's all I was trying to talk about. I didn't say anything about which is inherently better for which task. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
