[Scribus] Wordprocessor -> Scribus - but somewhat difficult

[Thomas Zastrow]

John R. Culleton schrieb:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 09:15, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
>   
>> Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007 14:36 schrieb John R. Culleton:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:19, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 6/24/07, Michael Engel wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> I searched for "italic fonts" and just found that there are
>>>>> some reasons not to have it included - but this is not
>>>>> understandable for the non-professionals.
>>>>>           
>>>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Word_Processing_vs_DTP
>>>>         
>>> It is interesting that TeX was not mentioned in the Wiki article.
>>>       
>> It's not mentioned because TeX is a typesetting engine, not a word
>> processor.
>>
>>     
> Quark and InDesign are mentioned, and they are certainly not word 
> processors either.
>
>   
>>> It
>>> is an Open Source DTP application with a large number of users.
>>>       
>> If typesetting is the same as DTP for you, then, yes, TeX and its
>> children are DTP applications. 
>>     
>
> Since TeX in its Context incarnation will also do some amount of 
> imposition  then I wonder what is lacking to make it a dtp 
> application in your understanding.  I am not arguing, just asking.  
> Is it the lack of a built-in text editor? The lack of WYSIWYG?
>  
>   

It is the lack of totally control over the layout: TeX places images 
*somewhere* where it thinks they fit, but I have not realy a chance to 
says that they have to appear exactly here or there.


>> BTW, many Scribus users and 
>> certainly the developers and contributors know TeX very well ;)
>>
>>     

I have to use LateX/TeX every day in the university ... and I hate it 
... ;-)

>
> Yes, I was only questioning the wiki article. 
>
>   
TeX isn't a DTP app - because the lack of control. TeX isn't a 
wordprocessor - because of missing WYSIWYG, missing Editor and so on and 
so on and so on. TeX is a typesetting engine, not more and not less.

Feel free to add a section about typesetting engines to the wiki - 
beside TeX, I would also suggest XSL FO ....

Best,

Tom



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