> Why wouldn't it? > A novel, for instance, doesn't really have any complex formatting. Most > pages will have just a single text block. It's already easy to do the > table of contents and styles, so the only real concern would be the > widow/orphan handling and the index generation.
> The documents I create with Scribus, while not huge, are usually 128 > pages in size, mostly text (short stories). The only real difficulty is > manually adjusting text frames to control widows/orphans, and it can be > pretty tedious in a long chapter. I see that has been on the feature > want list for a while, so I'll just be patient and hope it materializes > in the not-too-distant future. I can tell from what you are writing that you have probably never worked with LaTeX or similar systems:-) Why don't you download LyX and try for yourself, to see how easy TOC, index etc is handled. For writing a text intensive book I think that no software I have tried can compete with using LyX. It would be a dream if the story editor in Scribus would be like LyX. /Peter
