[Scribus] Tips for a newbie and request for examples

[Sandip Bhattacharya]

I am a newbie in the field of typesetting. Regardless, I am fascinated by 
the field and like other fields of art, find this terribly attractive.

My observations while going through Niyam's excellent tutorial, was that 
the following aspects - among numerous others, are crucial in producing 
professional grade documents.

a. How to "space" content in the document - less is more.
b. Know where to use which kind of fonts.
c. Knowledge of the complete printing process.
d. Color theory - especially being always aware that what we are creating 
in (the screen) is quite different from where it is ultimately coming out 
(the printer). This otherwise elementary concept is mostly missing from the 
vast population of word-processor users.


Having some technical writing background, my interest (at present) 
primarily lies in creating technical documents, manuals, etc. for my normal 
development work.

I would like to know if there are any Scribus scripted books and manuals - 
fiction/non-fiction, technical/non-technical (in Scribus source format, of 
course) which I can observe to get a "hang of the field". Like other fields 
of art, I do understand that typesetting is not something that you can read 
in a book and start off right away. It comes more from experience, a sense 
of aesthetics, a lot of observation power, among others. I just want some 
like a heads-up for starting off in this field.

Also, is there a mailing list where general typesetting discussion takes place?

Thanks,
  Sandip


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