On Wednesday 14 December 2005 19:18, John R. Culleton wrote: > 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?
Scribus is going to get a new text layouter in coming 1.3.x revisions... and we have some TeX plans too. Nothing concrete, but there will be big changes coming. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051214/97f15fe5/attachment.pgp
