On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:22, Adrianna Pinska wrote: > On 5/31/06, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > > Although LaTeX can be considered a standard in this > > > area of publishing, there are certainly many goals that can be easier > > > achieved with a layout software. > > > > Only two things come into my mind: posters and combing articles from > > several sources into a proceedings publication. > > Well, another possible area is layout for more informal magazines > which use a lot of mathematical notation - like mathematical magazines > aimed at students; that's a real world example from my university. > These magazines currently have to choose between nice layout and > terrible formula formatting, or nice formula formatting and formal, > minimalistic layout. > > > Here's my take on it: > > > > Scribus should be able to place LaTeX files into specialized textframes. > > Scribus would give LaTeX these textframes as available pages and ask it > > to typeset it. Then Scribus would display the result at the place of the > > frames. > > I think that's a great idea; it would probably be better to make a > LaTeX plugin like this than to reinvent the wheel and replicate > everything LaTeX does. Although maybe eventually, given enough time > and people working on it, it could be done.
Andreas already plans to do this... > Perhaps the ideal solution is delegating the formatting of formulae > and graphs to LaTeX (since this is both very complicated and very > specialised, and should be left to a specialised tool which already > does it very well), and handling everything else natively (like > references and tables of contents, which are more generally > applicable, and simpler)? We will see.. but it will happen at some point. 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/20060531/fc93555c/attachment.pgp
