Tobias Hilbricht wrote: >Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 09:37 schrieb Bart Alberti: > > > >>How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag >>systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml? >> >> > >I like LaTeX a lot for what it can do, but I also use Scribus for things which >are difficult (or even not at all) to obtain with LaTeX. Just to name >examples: >* Arbitrary shapes of text frames >* Non-square shaped areas for figures >* Holes covering parts of two columns >* Grid based typesetting >On the other hand, LaTeX has features expecially for scientific typesetting >which are neither reached by InDesign, QuarkXpress nor Scribus (think of >critical apparatus, indices, complex referencing etc.). >Therefore, Scribus has features LaTeX does not have and vice verse, and a >sla2latex-converter can only produce output which does not make use of the >real interesting features of both typesetting approaches. > > I think you're right, Tobias -- image-handling with LaTeX is challenging. I played with it a bit just to see how hard it was. I've also looked at how abiword manages to save as .tex files; it works but it's pretty ugly.
Greg
