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John Culleton-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> For Scribus to be comparable to TeX for long books it needs to be 
> able to justify a paragraph at a time, optionally 
> 
That's a nice-to-have but not mandatory. I think the justification algorithm
in 135 is good enough.


> use hanging punctuation, optionally use microtypography,  
> 
Late additions to TeX and already available in 135

 handle books of a thousand pages or more without subdividing the files, 
provide for 
> indexing, toc, automated footnoting, 
> 
True


> automatic placement of graphics, tables etc. on the current page or on the
> next page depending on how 
> things work out, 
> 
That's something you control manually after TeX had it's try, so maybe not
so essential.


> allow the insertion of a paragraph with automatic repagination as needed
> and automatic adjustment of both the toc and the index, 
> 
Well, that's what you expect from automatic pagination and indexing. Or do
you mean that Scribus should insert new pages automatically? I'm still
looking for a specification where and with what master page that should
happen. I'm afraid that users might have quite different needs when it comes
to inserting new pages.


> provide a facility for putting out different page sizes and page orders
> with a simple switch from the same file,  
> 
Uh, like an A4 and an A5 version from the same file?? That's a design layout
no-no IMHO.


> draw bibliographic references from a bibliographic database, with 
> automatic formatting and ordering of those entries depending on a bib 
> style selection and etc. 
> 
That's only needed for scientific books.



> I said before almost anything can be done with almost any tool, as the 
> man with the IBM 1100 proved.  But it is not sensible to use a tool 
> ill suited for the purpose at hand.  I am in the process of writing 
> an e-book on using Scribus for book cover design. Book cover design  
> is a task for which Scribus is admirably suited.  But the e-book 
> publisher insists that the book file size be held to less than two 
> megabytes.  If it goes over that parameter I may have to redo it in 
> TeX.  I can compress a pdf from Scribus but then I lose anchors etc. 
> 
The e-book publisher wants a PDF? Is that also the final e-book format
or are the pages reflowed? Would be interesting to see the specs.



> I am not knocking Scribus. I am putting in a lot of hours on learning 
> it.  But all of us need to have more than one arrow in our quiver. 
> 

Sure. But Scribus will get there eventually.

/Andreas
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