On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:55 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:48 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > > I hate to disagree, but there's no wheel missing. You are simply > > trying to hit a nail to the wall with a screwdriver. IOW, you are > > using the wrong tool. For your purpose, LaTeX seems to be the ideal > > solution. It has been used for more than twenty years in scientific > > and technical writing and it is unlikely anything better will ever > > show up, since it is almost free of bugs. > > Yeah. If however you're looking for a GUI tool somewhat like FrameMaker, > Scribus and OO.o are as close as you're likely to come in the OSS/Free > world - and neither are all that close. I think that was probably the > point. There's a "wheel missing" if you're looking for a FrameMaker > replacement/equivalent.
Well, there are some drawbacks to using LaTeX in that submitted text will need to be re-formatted (quite a lot If not mistaken) and the fact that the only LaTeX GUI I know of is LyX and though I find it very useful for writing Tech Report/Journals etc, I don't think It's nearly as good to be used entirely as a DTP. I know Freesoftwaremagazine uses LaTeX but how they use it, is beyond me. There are some things, like DTP, which really need a GUI and that is where scribus fills the niche. - 2 cents > > I don't think that's a failing of Scribus - rather, it's a feature area > that is desired by many but not present. As many of the features and > fixes needed for that are also very useful and important for other uses, > I can see some movement in that direction anyway. Beyond that, who > knows. I hate to say this but I do partially agree with Christoph, There is half a wheel missing but as Craig mentioned, it's not that it's not there, it's just not present. > -- > Craig Ringer > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:41:37 up 1 day, 12:00, 5 users, load average: 1.28, 1.17, 1.12
