On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 19:13, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > This whole thread should be saved for the Scribus archives as the most > frenzied international effort at a Scribus install to date. > We all felt your pain. > > G Pittman
thank you. i did not mention earlier, that i have been closely following the development, screenshots, features, of scribus, since april-may2002, when scribus started. i used redhat 7.0, then 7.1, then 7.2, then 7.3, but scribus always jumped ahead, by the time i upgraded. finally, i found it would just not install, and this time-period lasted nearly 8 months, till day-before. so, just browsed your site and watched it grow, while checking it out superficially via knoppix. am so thrilled that scribus got installed that i went out for a 40 minute drive all alone near midnight the other day, just singing and humming to myself. until scribus, tried researching and grappling with tex, but just gave up after a few months. my conclusion: tex is for document engineering, while scribus is for art directors and designers. incidentally, does scribus use concepts from tex for its typography engine? so far, i am quite impressed with the typography engine of TeX, and of indesign. i strongly feel that several new ideas are yet to be implemented in either, though. :-) LL
