On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:54, Paraplegic Racehorse wrote: > Hi! My first post to the list. > > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:47, Robert Kaiser wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > LWN.net has an article about Scibus at http://lwn.net/Articles/40000/ - > > the interesting thing there is the comments which discuss if Scribus is > > the first DTP app for Linux or not, as some consider LaTeX to generate > > "press-ready" results as well and might be capable of DTP as well... > > After reading those comments, it might serve the Scribus project better > to refrain from the claim of being the first Linux DTP app. Just replace > DTP with 'page layout.' Apparently, there are far too many nitpicky > geeks out there. That's one of the biggest problems with us, really. :) > We tend to get overly excited about how someone uses one single word in > their ad-copy and miss the forest for the tree.
Though I 'll personally disagree with the premise that LaTex is a DTP program in the sense I understand, I will rephrase that a bit in the future. I have no disrespect for the folks who created and use it. I think of it as a typesetting application, like a Linotronic..But, some do miss the forest forest for the trees. Cordially, Peter
