John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 25 July 2009 08:34:15 pm John Beardmore wrote: >> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> ...If I need borders >>> then I typically create the table in OpenOffice.org Writer, >>> being careful to mimic the text styles that I am using the >>> Scribus document. Then I print to file from Writer. In Scribus >>> I use File > Import > Get Vector File, which imports the file >>> as grouped vector objects. It's not editable in Scribus because >>> printing to file converts all the text to outlines. >> What sort of file do you print to from OO ? >> >>> A lot of people have been asking for real tables for a long >>> time, but it is not going to happen for quite a while yet. I >>> can only assume that the developers have decided it is too >>> complex to tackle right now. >> Which is a serious PITA for those of us doing any kind of >> technical work ! > > Decades ago programming guru Grace Hopper cautioned against using > FORTRAN for COBOL tasks and vice versa. :) And he may have been half right depending on how he defined FORTRAN and COBOL tasks. > At its current incarnation > Scribus is excellent for book covers, ad copy, flyers, and > newsletters. It doesn't yet measure up for technical works with > lots of tables, footnotes and the like. And long works are a > challenge for Scribus. I wouldn't use it to prepare the RS Catalogue, but it's good for a lot more than newsletters. For what it's worth, I don't find it any worse for 50 to 100 page works than Pagemaker and InDesign used to be. > I suppose that with 1.3.5 or later one > could call on one of several table macro sets that are available > with TeX (I like the Texsys table macros) but then the problem of > future correction still exists. It is both easier and more > satisfactory to do that book entirely in TeX, either pdftex plus > eplain, Context, or pdflatex (in decreasing order of my > preference.) Yes. > The future looks bright. But there are limitations on the present. Indeed ! Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
