LibreOffice has a very nice "Master Document" feature that allows you to build a book by linking in any number of .odt files such that changes to the linked files are automatically inherited by the master document whenever it is newly opened. This is similar to how images are placed in Scribus documents, such if you modify the image, say in Gimp, the modified image is automatically updated in the Scribus layout.
Also, in LibreOffice, when you link in an .odt file, if the paragraph styles used in the linked file have matching names to paragraph styles already existing in the master document, then the text in the linked file is rendered according to the styles in the master document, not the identically-named styles in the original document. This is a very useful feature, allowing a particular article to be styled differently in different publications.
These two features of LibreOffice make it possible to produce multiple publications with different layout styles that include the same articles such that only the original article needs to be edited when the content needs to be revised, and that revised content is automatically reflected in all the publications that are linked to that source document.
The only problem is that LibreOffice does not have all the page layout features of Scribus. So I am wondering whether Scribus offers a way to do the same thing.
So far, I have found that .odt files imported into Scribus text frames do not automatically take on the attributes of identically-named styles already defined in the Scribus layout. Instead, new styles are defined in Scribus with names derived from but not identical to the original styles in the .odt file.
Also, evidently, the .odt files are merely copied into the Scribus layout, not linked in as image files are, therefore changes in the original source document are not reflected in the Scribus layout.
Am I missing something?