hi erich > 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. yep, that's the negative side of having only one mailing list for development and user support topics. we are a relatively small community, so it's hard to separate all the different "worlds". and it's also nice to see simple users slowly becoming developers! i don't know there is a need and a way to better separate the users and topics... mostly, we have to rely on the users not to hijack topics :-) but, maybe, we could find a way to better tell the people that they don't have to read every mails getting in through a mailing list, that they can pick the threads that are interesting (and understandable) to them! i know many people that have the feeling that they have to read (and understand) everything... it's even rather common... >> 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. > this is something that certainly will come, once the footnotes are in the main code... >>>> 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. > why do you think that? everybody has talents! ciao a.l.e
