[Scribus] lively debate

[Craig Bradney]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:39, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> I am pleased that 1.1.4cvs went smoothly to 1.1.5cvs but what are the
> "?" I sometimes get. The U and "P" seem self-evident.

Where?

> The debate is wonderful. I think SMOOTH and STEADY is the trick.
> Putting in Math ML engines is for specialists. SVG is edited
> elsewhere. And so forth. Even spell check can  be done on the text
> before is is imported. I get it the main idea is still to get the text
> FIRST and then set it as a lay out. That is what DTP is, no? You HAVE
> something already; you want to publish it in a certain way. The
> philosophy of the thing we must be clear about not a bundle of word
> processing features.

The debate will grow.. :). I can see the future... 

Though.. 

Basically.. if theres a need for a feature that is reasonable for a DTP
app to have.. then it is worthwhile considering and we will consider it.

That is.. a multilanguage spell checker is planned based on aspell,
espell, ispell, ospell, uspell.. or one of the other 21 spell systems ;)
;)... or MySpell or perhaps even enchant. Expect it to be as cross
platform and flexible as possible.. so enchant might be the way to go.
Future plans.. This may come about when character based styles are
created though.. 

SVG can be created and edited in Scribus if you like, just as EPS can
be.

Math ML.. never used it.. maybe.. future.. 
LaTex.. maybe.. future..

Lets see where we get to for 1.2 and then pull in the rest on the road
to 1.3 and further. We have a lot to do between now and 1.2 and we want
to make sure that everything we have now works correctly, as bug free as
possible, with as many new features, documents, code comments etc etc
etc that we can do.

Craig
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