On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:05:50 +0100 JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote: > Le 10/12/2015 00:46, John Culleton a ?crit : > > I think the Scribus team > > would be doing users a service if they simply > > marked 1.5.0 as "stable" which it is, or at > > least as stable as the "stable" 1.4.3 version. > > I run 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 with no current > > problems from either. > > I also think it would be a very nice xmas gift > for the users. > > However, some of the new features are not > really "stable" : footnotes and marks can still > lead to crash and are bugy in some situations, > and some new features dont work or not well : > widow and ophans control (do any of you manage > to use it ?) other paragraph effets... and it > seems the new tables are not finished, which > could be a strong deterrent for some table > users. > > I use 1.5 since 2 or 3 years for production > work now, but i'm carefull to not use these > features. When 1.5 were labelled 'stable', > these features should be somehow marked > 'unstable'... > > JLuc > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
There are horses for courses as my father used to say. If the job at hand requires footnotes, a multilevel TOC, automatic widow and orphan control, a bibliography, an index and so on I use some form of TeX. But if the job requires lots of illos and text blocks embedded in the main text etc. or else a perfect book cover, then Scribus is my choice. Sometimes use both on the same book, Scribus for layout and a parallel TeX file derived from the Scribus pdf converted to text for indexing. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
