[scribus] The Scribus target - a question for the developers

Tornoci Laszlo torlasz at net.sote.hu
Fri Sep 26 08:20:21 CEST 2008


 > avox wrote:
>> On Monday 08 September 2008 06:54:40 pm John Beardmore wrote:
>> I have many product resources, all Open Source. I consider Scribus to 
>> be a niche product. It is strong for book covers, illustrated 
>> newsletters, coffee table books  and the like. It will never replace 
>> e.g., TeX for long books or books with with indexes, footnotes etc.  
>> When I typeset a novel I don't want to jump through hoops just to get 
>> widow/orphan suppression, running heads and so on.  And things like 
>> hanging punctuation, microtypography and so on are just beyond the 
>> reach of Scribus or any similar product.
> 
> Funny you'd say that, I implemented hanging punctuation and glyph extension
> in 1.3.4. Pierre implemented OTF features in FontMatrix and I have a
> prototype
> of a paragraph layouter for Scribus. And footnotes and widow/orphan control
> are definitely on our todo list. So I wouldn't say that's out of our reach.

Paragraph layouter for Scribus! How/where/when can I get my hands at that?

					Yours: Laszlo




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