Hi Pedrie, Am Montag, 10. Juli 2006 21:36 schrieb Pedrie Roberts: > Pedrie: > Thanks for all who answered about downloading and installing for Ubuntu, > esp. Mr Jordan, who knows what he's doing AND how to explain it. > My biggest frustration with Scribus is Story Editor, which i.m.o. is quite > useless for editing and maybe Scribus' weakest feature.
Quite the contrary: it is very useful. It allows fast editing of text (=content) without slowing down Scribus. InDesign does it the same way. > And you can't use > another editor, because it seems you can't paste into Story Editor. Yes, doesn't work yet, but that isn't really important. Scribus is no tool for editing text, and similar programs are neither. Scribus is a software to _layout_ a text that has already been edited in a wordprocessor or a simple text editor. The text tools are mainly for corrections and minor changes. > Any > hope of at least wysiwig? That would turn the purpose of the tool upside down. See Above. There are only two DTP programs I know of that allow WYSIWG editing in large documents without slowing down significantly, namely QuarkXPress and RagTime (the last one is hybrid of Office and DTP software). One of the most important things to learn in DTP is to separate the production of content from layout, both of which a ideally more or less completey different processes. If you compare a DTP software to an industry, it's the final assembly of parts (texts and graphics) which have been produced somewhere else. Its job is to put all of the pieces together in the highest precision possible and roll out the product to the printer (or the web, or a PDF viewer). It's not its job to produce the parts. > (I'm not just negative; I think Scirbus in > general is absolutely fantastic.) You bet :) Cheers, Christoph
