Hi, allow me to kill two birds with one stone.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:53:12 -0300 Jos? Young <young.vn at gmail.com> wrote: > I have been watching the list for some time, and to be honest, it > scares me. Most of you are talking way above my head. I have Scribus > installed, have tried to play around with it, but even some of the > more simple things are not obvious... despite the manual. > you got a point. > I have been working with Coral Ventura for many years. It is a mainly I have started with Ventura Publisher in the Eighties. One feature of Ventura I am really missing here are anchors. Many things become so simple with anchors in the .sla file. > a text oriented program. But.... it is getting old and since I work > in Linus I would prefer not using a Windows program. > > So I guess I will just sit in for a few months (years?) and watch the > list with the hope that I can begin to function with Scribus. > Just force yourself to make a document with scribus. > > > We also have to consider that we are talking about things which > > > are so hard to recognise by a beginner that the beginner does not > > > even understand what we are talking about. > > > > just one comment from my side: i fully agree that a beginner (or > > even somebody who is not an "expert", what that means...) won't > > understand what the issue is! > > > > but i can tell you, that many beginners notice that there is > > something wrong going on, something making things too complicated, > > frustrating. > > > > > > let's fix it! I am not in the position to do much here. Erich
