hi Tim > I am an educator in Japan trying to write an English Language > text book. > > The way that it is difficult to anchor images in M$W*rd is > really excruciating, > but it was the fact that it (and OOo) do not allow more than > one footnote > per line, which is a fatal flaw when I have about 20 > footnotes per page, that > makes me wonder whether I should buy something like Indesign > (ouch!) or > perhaps install Linux on my spare PC and install Scribus.
Maybe you should think if e.g. LaTeX should does it best. Automatic footnotes... I know that perfect math typo isn't the highest priority for English learning text :) But beware (IMHO) Scribus isn't text editor! It's pre-press tool and so it has a lot of functions for formatting nor writting. > Can Scribus handle Japanese two byte characters and folder names? I hope so but I'm not sure because I've never seen any Japanese program running :) It is working with Utf-8 and lots of codings too (as Qt does) > Does Scribus handle footnotes (i.e. autorenumbering them)? No. S pozdravem / Kind regards, Petr Vanek Development Praha Dept. SporDat, spol. s r.o. Michelska 13 14000 Praha 4 Czech Republic
