On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 11:29 -0500, William Adams wrote:
> With a graphical tool, one is limited to the automation which the developers are willing to build into the tool and sentenced to handling manually _everything_ else, _every_ time that there's a change, e.g., if you have a keyword block on your opening article pages aligned against the outside gutter and the layout program can't place it automatically and contextually, then _every_ time the article changes from opening to a left to a right or vice-versa one has to make that change manually.
> 
> I wrote up a longer comparison once upon a time --- Scribus isn't that much different from InDesign and Quark, so the criticism holds:
> 
> While I'm no TeX wizard, I prefer it because it allows one to off-load
> some of the tedium and repetitiveness to the computer, as opposed to
> repeatedly solving variations of the same problems by hand time after
> time after time.
> 
> So,

Great comparison and I just realized its already on the wiki. =)

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