[Scribus] typography

[Craig Bradney]

On Sunday 10 April 2005 06:27, Bart Alberti wrote:
> WP and DTP programs e.g. Quark and Word Perfect have options 'use ''smart
> quotes'' ' <toggle> Latex uses regular expressions of the <symbol>[A-Z]
> <capitalization sentence start> sort, too. The absence of these is Scribus
> is a limitation; it such be better and not worse than these  programs
> (except for Latex whose sophistication cannot be beat I think). Turning
> these into text yield however (from Quark) in
>           less myfile.text
>  so-and-so \222 etc.
> The long list of colors in the *sla file RGB CYMK BurntAlmond etc. takes up
> huge space when no color or even text color is called for in use. IMHO a
> modular text format where only the modules used is kept would seem much
> more efficient and I gather that is what some of the replies to my postings
> before seems to suggest will happen and if so I applaud. A file with
> nothing but a space character in scribus prints out in TEN pages of raw
> code. I see published books which have obviously been prepared in programs
> and it is obvious they have dropped some element of fine printing or even
> the usual standard of printing at some point and I can almost recognize
> what program was used or font for that matter.
>

So use the remove unsused colours feature. 10 pages? Since when do you need to 
read the file anyway? And you know theres a new format coming in 1.3 too...

Craig
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