If I have even a moderate amount of text in a document, I'd usually use latex to format the text, generate a PS file and import it into Scribus, which generally works well. However, it would be useful to be able to use the latex fonts in a text frame to make minor additions in Scribus. The latex package comes with a large collection of fonts, many of which are supported by Scribus, but most of the standard latex fonts commonly used are tfm fonts, which don't work well in Scribus, in particular, spaces between words in a text frame are not rendered properly.
I know, I've read the documentation about how Scribus is really fussy about fonts and the tfm fonts fail the tests recommended in the docs, but from long experience of using latex, I know these are good quality very attractive fonts. In recent years, latex has become the standard text formatting tool for any kind of mathematical typesetting, as well as a very powerful typesetting tool for general text, to the extent that anyone preparing a document with substantial mathematics will not dream of using anything else and any commercial publisher of mathematical books will invariably accept .tex files. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that latex is better than scribus for books/articles that consist mostly of text, with just a few diagrams, line drawings etc. Anyway, the upshot of this rather long-winded post is a request for future releases of Scribus to support all the fonts in the tex/latex package. This will make it even more attractive to those of us from a pure text publishing background who need the more powerful layout capabilities of Scribus when mixing text with photos, illustrations etc. Are there any compelling reasons why this would not be possible or desirable from the Scribus point of view? Terence
