On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 15:48 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > I hate to disagree, but there's no wheel missing. You are simply > trying to hit a nail to the wall with a screwdriver. IOW, you are > using the wrong tool. For your purpose, LaTeX seems to be the ideal > solution. It has been used for more than twenty years in scientific > and technical writing and it is unlikely anything better will ever > show up, since it is almost free of bugs.
Yeah. If however you're looking for a GUI tool somewhat like FrameMaker, Scribus and OO.o are as close as you're likely to come in the OSS/Free world - and neither are all that close. I think that was probably the point. There's a "wheel missing" if you're looking for a FrameMaker replacement/equivalent. I don't think that's a failing of Scribus - rather, it's a feature area that is desired by many but not present. As many of the features and fixes needed for that are also very useful and important for other uses, I can see some movement in that direction anyway. Beyond that, who knows. -- Craig Ringer
