On Saturday 20 September 2008 02:16:13 pm avox wrote: > John Culleton-3 wrote: > > On Monday 08 September 2008 06:54:40 pm John Beardmore wrote: > >> Mike Morris wrote: > >> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Gregory Pittman > >> > <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > Thank you for your response. Perhaps Scribus will always > >> > remain a work in process. If Linus Torvalds is correct, that > >> > is probably a good thing for the capabilities of the > >> > application. Although, in my opinion, that will limit the > >> > impact of Scribus on the industry. > >> > >> I can't agree. Who wants to be locked into product that isn't > >> evolving and won't respond to external change ? > >> > >> Would you invest your time in Linux if development ceased ? > >> > >> > >> Cheers, J/. > > > > I have many product resources, all Open Source. I consider > > Scribus to be a niche product. It is strong for book covers, > > illustrated newsletters, coffee table books and the like. It > > will never replace e.g., TeX for long books or books with with > > indexes, footnotes etc. When I typeset a novel I don't want to > > jump through hoops just to get widow/orphan suppression, running > > heads and so on. And things like hanging punctuation, > > microtypography and so on are just beyond the reach of Scribus or > > any similar product. > > Funny you'd say that, I implemented hanging punctuation and glyph > extension in 1.3.4. Pierre implemented OTF features in FontMatrix > and I have a prototype > of a paragraph layouter for Scribus. And footnotes and widow/orphan > control are definitely on our todo list. So I wouldn't say that's > out of our reach.
Interesting. How does one apply hanging punctuation? I have a recent version of Scribus 1.3.5 up on a Debian partition. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
