John R. Culleton wrote: > I write text in Vim. I use ispell standalone to check the spelling. > Then I can import that text into Story editor or whatever. > The philosophy of *nix from the beginning has been to use specialized > tools rather than one great big Swiss army knife of a program. I > would hate to have Scribus weighed down with on-the-fly spell > checking a la Microsoft Word etc.
As a long time UNIX user, that's a concept I appreciate - but I also recognise its limitations in GUI apps. Plugins are IMO a reasonable compromise, especially when they provide an interface to external tools/libraries. -- Craig Ringer
