> personally, i would be much more interested in reading your thoughts on > how scribus and other software could share content (clearly, i'm mostly > interested in the textual content :-).
But I wrote that a few days ago already:) More and maybe better import filters (import filters should be able to apply any formatting, both character and paragraph styles, as well as direct formatting, using regexp and similar "rules"), and of course support for linked text content (the same way as images). That way text content can be loaded, and formatted "on the fly", when the document is opened. And using a specific Scribus "text" format (XML) any adjustments to the formatting can get saved back to an external file and can be edited with other software. Before I discovered Scribus I had great hopes about http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/ (since I had been using LaTeX and Lyx). I haven't tried out the render frames yet, maybe using LaTeX and render frames already works the way I would like? Can render frames be linked so I can write a whole book in LaTeX and import into a chain of linked render frames? Oh, and right, I really think the story editor should take on the good parts from LyX. LyX works the way any typesetting editor should work, forget all about word processing and text editor when you can write multiple spaces or newlines after eachother. Text is glyphs forming words forming paragraphs, you only need one space between each word and one paragraph break between paragraphs. /Peter
