Of course, you don't write a book in Scribus! That's not what it's designed for.
As long as people will try to do with a layout software what they should do with a text editor, they will never be happy. Pierre-Luc Allen wrote: >Craig, > >I'm sure you get many compliments. I have not doubt whatsoever, >however.... Well, it's like this, most people won't tell you there is a >problem, they'll just go away. I personally know 3 people who tried to >use Scribus and dumped it. I thought it was just because they were Linux >kernel coders, SMTP experts, and C++ programmers that there heads were >not screwed on the right way to understand a frames based DTP program. >When my friend Bob, the kernel level coder, talked about a book he and a >team or programmers were doing about Linux appliances, he mentioned the >difficulties he'd had doing it in Scribus. I commiserated with him and >decided to try it to see if it was truly as bad/difficult to understand >as he said, which is why I'm here. > >I know for a fact he and his partners never wrote any notes to the >Scribus team about their problems, they just moved on and tried DocBook, >which they abandoned shortly before settling on a combination of AbiWord >and OpenOffice. > >How many others have done the same? Inquiring minds would like to know. > >Best, > >Allen >
