On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:51:27 -0500 Mardigrafe - Louis Desjardins <louis_desjardins at mardigrafe.com> wrote:
> ? (At) 11:14 -0500 09/01/04, Bob White ?crivait (wrote) : > >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 a very interesting discussion. Let me share my working > experience : DTP with Quark for over 15 years now (and so many white > hair!). > > On the production side, what you want is THE definitive text (which, > obviously, is wishful thinking but anyway!). In our view, the > spellchecking and text editing must be done upstream. Then, the text > arrives in our caring hands for a shape-up, along with the pics and > logos and so on. What one would expect, at that stage of the work, is > a normal proof-reading that would lead to identify small corrections, > typos, etc. Nothing that will bother too much the layout. All this to > say, when in production - and I mean "production" where you have to > deal with hundreds of pages everyday - there is not much room (time) > for spellchecking by that same worker. This is done, usually, by > another team of specialized workers, the proofreaders, whose job is > not to identify some typos but to identify the typos! > > HOWEVER!!!! ... > > On the other side of production, some people (and there may be lots of > people!) are going to edit the text and organize the layout in "one" > single step (in some way). > > QuarkXPress is not a renowned program for its spellchecking > capabilities. Over the years, other vendors have come up with mature > solutions. Some are connected to Quark (through XTensions) some are > confined to the word processor... > > It is a matter of how you see this work. From my point of view, I > wouldn't ask for a spellchecker in Scribus. But if there was one, I > think it would be useful anyway, to a fair percentage of the users, > maybe more on the "bureautic" side of the editing planet! > > Does that sound fair enough!? Thanks for your reply, and I see your point. I could easily accommodate preparing the text in another application if there was a way to cut and paste from there into the text boxes in Scribu. I'm dealing with roughly 160 separate boxes, and the only way I see make it work is to generate 160 text files. Keeping all that straight is mind-boggling. If there is a better way, I would like to learn it. :) Bob White > > By the way, I missed a few ones on yesterday's wishes (but it might be > there already) :- tracking/kerning (so useful) > - horizontal scaling of fonts > > Also : if there is to be such thing as bullet/numbering function, > please let us control the settings! We like much more using tabs and > positive/negative numbers to set properly any kind of hierarchical > information (than the automated and so hard to cope with automated > settings that are in some word processors...). > > Good day to all! > > Louis Desjardins > > > > >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Scribus mailing list > >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > - - - - - - - http://www.bob-white.com N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4
