[scribus] The Scribus target - a question for the developers

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 20 September 2008 02:16:13 pm avox wrote:
> John Culleton-3 wrote:
> > On Monday 08 September 2008 06:54:40 pm John Beardmore wrote:
> >> Mike Morris wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Gregory Pittman
> >> > <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thank you for your response.  Perhaps Scribus will always
> >> > remain a work in process.  If Linus Torvalds is correct, that
> >> > is probably a good thing for the capabilities of the
> >> > application. Although, in my opinion, that will limit the
> >> > impact of Scribus on the industry.
> >>
> >> I can't agree. Who wants to be locked into product that isn't
> >> evolving and won't respond to external change ?
> >>
> >> Would you invest your time in Linux if development ceased ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers, J/.
> >
> > I have many product resources, all Open Source. I consider
> > Scribus to be a niche product. It is strong for book covers,
> > illustrated newsletters, coffee table books  and the like. It
> > will never replace e.g., TeX for long books or books with with
> > indexes, footnotes etc. When I typeset a novel I don't want to
> > jump through hoops just to get widow/orphan suppression, running
> > heads and so on.  And things like hanging punctuation,
> > microtypography and so on are just beyond the reach of Scribus or
> > any similar product.
>
> Funny you'd say that, I implemented hanging punctuation and glyph
> extension in 1.3.4. Pierre implemented OTF features in FontMatrix
> and I have a prototype
> of a paragraph layouter for Scribus. And footnotes and widow/orphan
> control are definitely on our todo list. So I wouldn't say that's
> out of our reach.

Interesting. How does one apply hanging punctuation? I have a recent 
version of Scribus 1.3.5 up on a Debian partition. 


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