On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:23 pm, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:18, John R. Culleton wrote: > > While text handling in Scribus continues to improve it is still > > well short of the level provided by more text-oriented packages > > such as TeX and InDesign. Therefore I wonder if there is a way to > > marry the layout capabilities of Scribus with the line and > > paragraph making capabilities of TeX? What I am thinking of is a > > way to flow a column of text already in PostScript form into a > > set of linked pages in Scribus. Or perhaps each column's worth of > > text could be imported as a separate ps file. I am most concerned > > with the ability to retain the postscript characteristic of the > > text, without reducing it to a bitmap. > > > > It is well known that InDesign borrows (legally) much of its > > paragraph making logic directly from Tex. So another approach > > would be to replace the present text handling routines with > > their TEX equivalents. > > > > Has anyone experimented in these directions? > > Scribus is going to get a new text layouter in coming 1.3.x revisions... > and we have some TeX plans too. Nothing concrete, but there will be big > changes coming. > > Craig
Aha! I will watch with interest. I use plain pdftex and Context but not LaTeX. I feel that the closer you get to the original TeX primitives the more value you will find. I may be more willing than able to help but keep me in mind as a resource. John Culleton
