[Scribus] Scribus for Scientific Posters?

[Benjamin Huot]

have you tried context?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page

It is included in TeX Live
It seems too complicated for my purposes but it gives you more  
control over layout.

On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Xavier Colmant wrote:

>> That, together with the vector embedding of LaTeX output,
>> should
>> turn Scribus into a very powerful LaTeX page layout program.
>>
> I never understood why there is no gui interface to Tex.  Scientific
> masochism?  Otherwise, Tex is incredibly powerful and flexible.  It's
> really good at laying out whole documents and to write formulas.  But,
> as master Andr?as said, it's a pain if you want to do some little
> specific designs on a page.  Generally Tex output is very bland.  All
> Tex documents look the same (man or info pages in Linux), thousands of
> thesis written by scientists...  Knuth's 'The Art of Computer
> Programming' is part of my bedstands books.
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