[Scribus] Character-by-character placement in PDF

[Bart Alberti]

Gregory Pittman wrote:

> Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
>
>> Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 09:37 schrieb Bart Alberti:
>>
>>> How about sla 2 latex (both being basically text tag
>>> systems). Surely xml is a subset of sgml?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I like LaTeX a lot for what it can do, but I also use Scribus for 
>> things which are difficult (or even not at all) to obtain with LaTeX. 
>> Just to name examples:
>> * Arbitrary shapes of text frames
>> * Non-square shaped areas for figures
>> * Holes covering parts of two columns
>> * Grid based typesetting
>> On the other hand, LaTeX has features expecially for scientific 
>> typesetting which are neither reached by InDesign, QuarkXpress nor 
>> Scribus (think of critical apparatus, indices, complex referencing 
>> etc.).
>> Therefore, Scribus has features LaTeX does not have and vice verse, 
>> and a sla2latex-converter can only produce output which does not make 
>> use of the real interesting features of both typesetting approaches.
>>  
>>
> I think you're right, Tobias -- image-handling with LaTeX is 
> challenging. I played with it a bit just to see how hard it was.
> I've also looked at how abiword manages to save as .tex files; it 
> works but it's pretty ugly.
>
> Greg
>
Indeed, Abi is ugly but it can be easily tweaked. It is just a list of 
tags. Instead of sla2latex, why not import with latex2sla? Now, that 
would get the original features mentioned above.
Bart Alberti