Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 09:37 schrieb Bart Alberti: > How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag > systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml?
I like LaTeX a lot for what it can do, but I also use Scribus for things which are difficult (or even not at all) to obtain with LaTeX. Just to name examples: * Arbitrary shapes of text frames * Non-square shaped areas for figures * Holes covering parts of two columns * Grid based typesetting On the other hand, LaTeX has features expecially for scientific typesetting which are neither reached by InDesign, QuarkXpress nor Scribus (think of critical apparatus, indices, complex referencing etc.). Therefore, Scribus has features LaTeX does not have and vice verse, and a sla2latex-converter can only produce output which does not make use of the real interesting features of both typesetting approaches. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
