[Scribus] Re: Japanese and mutli footnotes

[VAN?K Petr]

hi Tim

> I am an educator in Japan trying to write an English Language 
> text book.
> 
> The way that it is difficult to anchor images in M$W*rd is 
> really excruciating, 
> but it was the fact that it (and OOo) do not allow more than 
> one footnote 
> per line, which is a fatal flaw when I have about 20 
> footnotes per page, that 
> makes me wonder whether I should buy something like Indesign 
> (ouch!) or 
> perhaps install Linux on my spare PC and install Scribus. 

Maybe you should think if e.g. LaTeX should does it best. Automatic footnotes... I know
that perfect math typo isn't the highest priority for English learning text :)

But beware (IMHO) Scribus isn't text editor! It's pre-press tool and so it has a lot of
functions for formatting nor writting.
 
> Can Scribus handle Japanese two byte characters and folder names?

I hope so but I'm not sure because I've never seen any Japanese program running :)
It is working with Utf-8 and lots of codings too (as Qt does)

> Does Scribus handle footnotes (i.e. autorenumbering them)? 

No.


S pozdravem / Kind regards,

Petr Vanek

Development Praha Dept.

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