[Scribus] Announce Scribus 1.3.4 - Open Source Page Layout

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Wed May 30 03:12:09 CEST 2007


John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 16:34, Plinnell wrote:
>
>   
>> * The new text layout engine has a multitude of enhancements for
>> vastly better more appealing justification, including the use of
>> optical margins and more sophisticated word spacing algorithms.
>>
>>     
>
> First congratulations to all those involved. Now I would like to pin 
> down exactly what is meant by the above paragraph. As we all know 
> both TeX and InDesign use a paragraph justification scheme, and 
> Quark, MSWord Pagemaker etc. use line by line justification. Where 
> does the latest Scribus fall in these groupings?  More like TeX and 
> ID or more like Quark?
>   
Here is a bit about it:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Version_1.3.4%2B_-_Text_Editing#Optical_Margins

Greg



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