While text handling in Scribus continues to improve it is still well short of the level provided by more text-oriented packages such as TeX and InDesign. Therefore I wonder if there is a way to marry the layout capabilities of Scribus with the line and paragraph making capabilities of TeX? What I am thinking of is a way to flow a column of text already in PostScript form into a set of linked pages in Scribus. Or perhaps each column's worth of text could be imported as a separate ps file. I am most concerned with the ability to retain the postscript characteristic of the text, without reducing it to a bitmap.
It is well known that InDesign borrows (legally) much of its paragraph making logic directly from Tex. So another approach would be to replace the present text handling routines with their TEX equivalents. Has anyone experimented in these directions? John Culleton Able Indexers and typesetters.
