On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 7:39:01 -0800 <bart at solozone.com> wrote: > I am pleased that 1.1.4cvs went smoothly to 1.1.5cvs but what are the > "?" I sometimes get. The U and "P" seem self-evident. > > The debate is wonderful. I think SMOOTH and STEADY is the trick. > Putting in Math ML engines is for specialists. SVG is edited > elsewhere. And so forth. Even spell check can be done on the text > before is is imported. I get it the main idea is still to get the text > FIRST and then set it as a lay out. That is what DTP is, no? You HAVE > something already; you want to publish it in a certain way. The > philosophy of the thing we must be clear about not a bundle of word > processing features. > > bart at solozone.com > >
With reference to spell checking, I'm doing a document that has a text box for a heading, a small box with "normal" text, a couple of pictures, captions in a text box for the picture, another header, etc. In other words, there are 6 or 8 text boxes per page. Importing text only imports one box at a time, so using another application for spell checking is severely painful. I could get by if there was an export of the whole document to a text file. Then I could run a spell check elsewhere and manually transport the corrections back, but a spell checker would be ideal. This is the first document I've done with Scribus, so I'm still learning. Maybe there is a better way to format the document. I will say that Scribus is the best program I've ever used to get the layout the way I want it. I started this document in StarOffice. Initally, everything goes much faster, then the automatic stuff starts getting to you. Pretty soon, there is a jumble of stuff that is impossible to sort out. Keep up the good work, and I vote for a spellchecker. Bob White - - - - - - - http://www.bob-white.com N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4
