[Scribus] text formatting (bullet lists, special characters, subscripts) suggestions...

[Peter Linnell]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 15:33, Andrew Morrison wrote:
> I've done some searching through the documents and mail list archives,
> but have yet to come across a great answer for my question, so forgive
> me if I missed something really obvious.
> 
> I was wondering what is the preferred method for handling text with a
> lot of special formatting in it?  For example, I am working on the
> layout of a newsletter published by a group of scientists.  Normally,
> the articles are only text and images, and the layout is
> straightforward.  However, I have an article which includes a lot of
> special characters, bulleted lists, subscripts, superscripts and
> mathematical formulas.   Obviously, importing the text in the normal way
> would require a lot of formatting to be done.   So, I've been playing
> around with the eps import.  This is fine, if the text is short, but
> what if the article goes over several pages?  Or if it needs to start in
> the middle of the first page?  And accommodating multiple columns seems
> to be tricky as well...
> 
> Is there a preferred method for handling this type of text?

The missing info is what app is creating the  math formulas ? That is
the key to answering your question.

Peter