`n Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:32:50PM -0700, Nick Vettese wrote: > How is using multiple programs more efficient than using one? I am both a > Windows and a Linux user, so you downward tone towards Windows users kind of > irks me, as I have been a user/administrator of both types of systems for > many years, so I am no Johnny come lately.
The problem is you're in the middle of a culture clash. "A Quarter Century of Unix" quotes Doug McIlroy "This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." Asking for an embedded spell checker in Scribus violates this philosophy. Preparing the text content using the best available tool (I won't get into vi vs emacs), including checking the spelling BEFORE invoking Scribus follows this philosophy. What makes this multiple program model more efficient is that you can more easily modify the work-flow to meet your special needs if it's not entirely within a single comprehensive program. Eric Raymond's "The Art of Unix Programming", available at http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/index.html, provides much more detail. -- Randolph Bentson bentson at holmsjoen.com
