salve > I am still of the opinion that Scribus is not the right tool for text > heavy books with tables of content, indexes, footnotes and the like. > For that work I use TeX, simply because Scribus is clumsy with long > documents. There are as they say horses for courses. You can do > almost anything using almost any tool. But because of its basic > design Scribus is not the optimal tool for books, and may never be. > i like the way you start your sentence telling us that you wouldn't write a text heavy book with some "advanced" features which are not implemented yet in scribus (and here you are actually right) and finish asserting that scribus is not an optimal tool for books and may never be (which is not totally wrong).
are you an economist? ciao a.l.e p.s.: scribus is right now a good tool for some sort of books, but certainly not for all sort of books!
