a.l.e wrote: > hi >> And what answer do you expect from another painter? >> >> Cubism ? Who knows ? Artists are not always polite about each others >> styles or genres ! > i think he was writing about the other type of painters... > >> There is no 'one true way to enlightenment' when it comes to document >> preparation, and there are those of us that don't come from a >> conventional press work flow environment, who see DTP as 'document >> preparation without the many defects of word processors', as opposed >> to a discrete step in a process that must necessarily involve as many >> tools as job descriptions. > personally, i like the fact that scribus is built with the professional, > classical, dtp worker in mind. > it's imho an insurance that the core features of scribus will be rock > solid and that you won't experience *any* unwanted change on your > formatting.
:) Yes, but its exactly this that makes it appealing to people who have suffered the 'layout' features of WP software. > i'm very happy if it can also fit for other workflows and needs (and i > mostly do use it for other tasks!) and i think that feedback for > usecases like yours is more than welcome! > i even dream of a scribus which would be suitable for producing > translatable, evolutive, technical manuals... > > but i also believe that such whishes should only be followed if they > don't disturb the traditional work flow in any way. Quite so. > so, having objects being automatically moved on even and odd pages is > certainly an interesting feature. but you should be aware that when > proposing such a feature, you have to make sure that frames always move > in a predictable way. Well yes ! > and a user not caring on that feature should > *never* experience a wrong placed frame because of it. Indeed. > you already got answers wich give some details on corner cases which > will be difficult to be implemented... > > now it's time to find out all the corner cases and to draft solutions > for it! Possibly, though I dare say that most of us that are keen to see more features are still keener to see a stable 1.3.5 first. Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Energy Audit, Carbon Management, Design Advice, Sustainable Energy Consultancy and Installation, Carbon Trust Standard Registered Assessor Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability
