Hi Christoph, I think we agree on more than we disagree, however I've responded to a couple of individual points below.
Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. Juli 2006 02:06 schrieb Nik: > >>>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:14:15 -0700 (PDT) >>>From: avox <avox at arcor.de> >>>Subject: Re: [Scribus] Setting a thesis in Scribus (ver. 1.3.3.2 dev) >>>To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >>>Message-ID: <5286089.post at talk.nabble.com> >>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>>Nik-4 wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Marek, >>>> >>>>I don't actually agree with a previous post that Scribus is not the >>>>appropriate tool for you. >> >>I still stand by this - particularly in light of the features coming in >>1.3. > > > Nik, how can you recommend a software based on features that are yet to come? My comment was written in the context of a previous post pointing out that 1.3 could shortly replace 1.2 as the stable release - before 1.4 is available. My original post had actually referred explicitly to 1.2 as opposed to 1.3. > Maybe you haven't written a larger scientific piece of > work in your life. I have, an 800 page Ph.D. thesis, so I think I have at > least an idea of what is required here. I'm certainly not questioning your experience on this. The largest document I've formatted with Scribus is 80 pages, so I bow to your greater experience on that point. I find the ability of scribus to assemble a larger document out of multiple component documents makes the workflow very scalable, and I was trying to explain to Marek what style of workflow would work best with scribus. And as I said in the main point of my most recent post, from what little I've seen (based on your earlier recommendation), LyX does seem to be a good tool for this type of work. > Add the issues with huge amounts of text in > a file (issues to be solved on the way to 1.4) Ok - I was not aware of those, as they haven't affected my work (that I've noticed anyway). If scribus currently has issues with documents the size of a thesis, then that would rule it out, even if the feature set was complete. Thanks for your feedback - and for sharing your experiences. I, for one, will be evaluating LyX for more structured documents in the very near future - even though I am not planning on writing a thesis any time soon :o) Cheers! Nik
