Just wanted to take the opportunity to appreciate the development team. I started playing around with Scribus about a year ago, and have been using it seriously for the past six months or so to lay out several issues of a magazine and a rather substantial book, with excellent results. To be sure, there have been a few crashes (as I tend to work with the "bleeding edge" svn releases), but all-in-all I've found it remarkably stable. I'm mainly using 1.3.8 now, under Ubuntu 10.04.
Two improvements I'd find very helpful would be a linked footnote/endnote mechanism (I do it all manually now), and an undo mechanism (Ctrl-z) that works while editing text. I also wish that applying a style to a paragraph would preserve italics, bold, etc., when those renditions exist for the font defined in the new paragraph style. It is tedious to have to go back and re-italicize sections of text within the paragraph, and easy to overlook some portions. Another thing I'd make good use of is an easy-to-use Linux-based page imposition tool to replace the "Quite Imposing" plugin for Adobe Acrobat. I hate having to run Acrobat Pro under XP in a Virtual Box to do my impositions. I discovered the Multivalent java scripts, and they work well, but I don't know when I'll get around to writing a front end to make them more easy to use.
