[Scribus] It's what people don't tell you...

[Craig Bradney]

> There is the further issue that if it is done directly in Framemaker 
> other technical writers can work on it without destroying the layout, 
> which often happens with Word. An additional benefit of working directly 
> in Framemaker is that one can use (and keep track of!) text inset 
> boilerplate from a standing document maintained by someone else. Change 
> it once in one place and import it into as many documents (at IBM there 
> were 300+ documents that needed a few standing elements in the unit I 
> was in) as need it. In the same manner one could use conditional text so 
> that Model A got text that only included features related to it, but 
> Model A+ got the conditional text that included the extra features of 
> the A+ line. One document, one set of corrections for the base features, 
> and yet two different, if related, finished books. And books they are, 
> anywhere from 70 or so pages to 800+ page sleeping pills that are sent 
> out to printers to do runs from 25 to 25,000. They all looked the same, 
> they all had the same structure and layout. Plus you could send the 
> output directly to the web, help files, PDFs, or whatever was wanted.
> 
>  From some of the stuff I had been told about Scribus I was under the 
> impression it was moving in that direction. I guess I heard wrong.
>

Scribus is moving in many important directions, however you still seem to
forget the fact that most of us actually have some life outside of it,
including working. Theres about 8 of us coding... things take time. User
docs get written after an area is complete. Anyone with the right skills is
welcome to offer to help.

Craig