I don't understand, why all these applications don't adopt TeX layout algorithm, but better. TeX breaks paragraph to lines globally optimal, but breaks set of lines into pages locally optimal due to memory constrains of first implementation, as far as I understand.
Why there is no Visual Page Layout tool, which allows to layout empty boxes to page template visually and then "pour" stream of text to these boxes which will be break to lines & pages (boxes) with TeX algorithm? It looks like perfect combination of visual layout (which is much easier than TeX/LaTeX tools if you need magazine-style irregular layout) and TeX perfect typography.
I've tried Scribus when I was in charge of technical part of one samyzdat magazine, and it was good in layout and absolute nightmare in putting text in this layout. To be honest, it was something like 15 years ago. On the other hand, news on this site says about new text layout engine in branch 1.5 (year 2016!) and stable branch is still 1.4 (latest release in 2019). As far as I remember, I've tried version 1.3.x. Many-many years ago :-(
Why there is no Visual Page Layout tool, which allows to layout empty boxes to page template visually and then "pour" stream of text to these boxes which will be break to lines & pages (boxes) with TeX algorithm? It looks like perfect combination of visual layout (which is much easier than TeX/LaTeX tools if you need magazine-style irregular layout) and TeX perfect typography.
I've tried Scribus when I was in charge of technical part of one samyzdat magazine, and it was good in layout and absolute nightmare in putting text in this layout. To be honest, it was something like 15 years ago. On the other hand, news on this site says about new text layout engine in branch 1.5 (year 2016!) and stable branch is still 1.4 (latest release in 2019). As far as I remember, I've tried version 1.3.x. Many-many years ago :-(