[scribus] epub from sla? or Scribus versus Lyx

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Thu Jun 23 22:08:23 UTC 2011


Off topic / Off List :-)

, skrifaði John Culleton:
> On Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:24:25 am Rob Oakes wrote:
>> If you want to create both ePub and PDF from a single
> source document, you....
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> There are several excellent open source  html/css editors
> such as Amaya, Bluefish and Quanta++. But that is not
> Scribus' role. And if Lyx exports Xhtml that is still a
> long way from an Epub or Kindle ready file. Those tables
> etc. just won't transfer. That is the big problem with Epub
> and Kindle. They won't even handle the full array of html
> page capabilities.
>
> I would not favor resources being diverted from the main
> mission of Scribus, print documents, to attacking another
> market entirely. And if I were editing text for e.g.,
> eventual use in a Kindle or Epub file I certainly would not
> use Scribus but would use Gvim instead. It offers syntax
> highlighting for a variety of formats including html.
>
> For long documents I type in something else and flow text
> into Scribus. As a text editor it is not the most handy
> program. Maybe 1.5.0 will be better but the current version
> is not as capable as older versions, as has been pointed
> out multiple times by yours truly and others.
>
> I do keep a Slackware 12.2 partition alive just so I can
> use Quanta++ which unfortunately fell off the KDE distro
> when KDE switched to the Qt4 libraries. It is IMO the best
> html/xhtml editor. It also has css facilities.
>
> There are horses for courses, as my father used to say.
>

Totally agree.

But my OpenSuse 11.4 still has all the KDE 3.5 repos, surely 
you have to enable them or set up. I have Quanta++, KBabel 
and bunch of other stuff not present in KDE4.

Just a hint.

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