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<DIV>I am grateful to Teodor, Joe, Gregory and Rob for their prompt and courteous replies to my post for advice and assistance in using Scribus to edit a novel to the stage that it can be submitted in PDF form to a print. Why am I doing this, when I do have publishers who have edited fiction for me, and would do the same for Adoring Venus, my current novel? Because I have time on my hands and like the challenge of seeing a work of literature through from creation to production.</DIV>
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<DIV>It has been suggested that I use LaTex instead of Scribus, but I have already done preliminary work on Scribus, and can move all 20 chapters from Word XP via OpenOffice into Scribus on A5 size format, with 10mm margins set (as instructed by a printer), though they wish crop-marks, <STRONG>which I do not know how to install. With regard to page numbers, I am unsure of the procedure whereby I begin Chapter 2 on page 15 and the remaining chapters thereafter. </STRONG>I can, however, install a running title header, though <STRONG>I do not know how to centre it. </STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>The important topic of font choice has been raised by several of you. Apart from aesthetic considerations, font choice is in part dictated by the desire to keep kerning to a minimum, <STRONG>so I would welcome suggestions about using available Scribus fonts on this basis, though I understand that I may be able to import into Scribus certain paid fonds, such as Caslon.</STRONG> <STRONG>I would also welcome</STRONG> <STRONG>guidance on how I proceed with kerning, since this is a manual function in Scribus, and has the potential to be time-consuming. (Can it be dealt with at the Word XP stage before transferring the files via Officeworld into Scribus?) I presume that for widows and orphans, this entails a painstaking visual search through all 20 chapters and is not an automatic function of Scribus.</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>I also have to create Master Pages, to cover page numbering and the running title header. It has been suggested to me that one Master Page will suffice for all first pages in a chapter, covering all chapters, and that a second Master Page will cover all subsequent pages in all chapters. <STRONG>Is this the case?</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>It would seem that once I have mastered the technique of editing one chapter, the same technique can be applied to the remaining 19 chapters, and that what will require to be done thereafter is to link them in sequence, pagination-wise, and then prepare a file of single sequential pages for the printer.</DIV>
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<DIV>Your advice and recommendations will be most welcome. Please forgive the length of this posting, but if I can be helped to create a procedure for editing extended fiction in Scribus, it will help other writers.</DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings from an overcast St Andrews in Scotland.</DIV>
<DIV>Scottie (Lorn is my name)</DIV>
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