[Scribus] Character-by-character placement in PDF

[Bart Alberti]

> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > Craig Ringer wrote:
> >
> >> Gregory Pittman wrote:
> >>
> >>> > > I do quite a bit with LaTeX, but for archiving
purposes I
> > just keep the .tex file; it has everything I need for
that purpose.
>
> Absolutely. That makes perfect sense for archival.
>
> I don't necessarily think it'd be reasonable to expect to
be able to
> send your .tex file to a printer and have them deal with
making it into
> a PDF though - they'd need all the fonts and images, any
macro packages
> you're using, etc. ick. Archival is a very different thing
to submission
> to a printer, and has different requirements. That's my
point.
>

Nobody has mentioned that dvi was supposed to be the 'device
independent printer standard.
How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag
systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml? Is there a dtd for
Scribus? (It might read in Word Perfect for example which
has a very good import system including modules for sgml
docs.)
The TUGBOAT community loves the universality of TeX, with
good reason

Bart Alberti