Wow. I had totally forgotten the fun things you could do with actual DTP software - and how much easier it is to do them.
Scribus has some learning curve to it, but I'm already seeing ways to do more or less what I envisioned but couldn't accomplish in OpenOffice.Org Writer or Impress. Things line up! I can set up regular horizontal guides matching the x-height of my largest text!* I can make sure fonts of differing size in different columns will line up by the baseline rather than the ascent! I can put text where I want to and make it look nice!
We likes it.
* - I mean, there's not a "set up guides based on x-height" button, but monkeybrain + mathematics makes it doable!