2011/1/7 Peter Nermander <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@nermander.se">peter@nermander.se</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Using LaTeX native might be confusing, but going by LyX is rather easy.<br>
<br>
One of my hobbies is bookbinding. When learning bokkbinding you of<br>
course want books to bind. So, I went to Project Gutenberg and<br>
downloaded a few books. They come as plain text files, but formatted<br>
according to a few specific rules. The consistent formatting means<br>
that it is quite easy to write a script to transfer to LaTeX format.<br>
And of course someone has already done that, the script is called<br>
gutenmark.<br>
<br>
I did that, imported the LaTeX file into Lyx, made some adjustments<br>
and then exported to a PDF. Took me 10-15 minutes to get The<br>
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a printable PDF.<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi Peter,<br><br>I am reading your post with much interest and wonder whether you'd like to give us a link where we could download the PDF you have produced with LyX? and even, the LaTeX file too?<br>
<br>Thanks and happy new year !<br><br>Louis <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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So I'd suggest that if editing LaTeX manually seems hard, try LyX.<br>
<br>
<br>
I really can't see any good reason to use Scribus for a book with only<br>
text, and one text frame per page. The reason is that Scribus still<br>
lacks a lot of the automation you want for such a projekt. Scribus<br>
can't do automatic running headers with the chapter name (in LaTeX<br>
it's just one line of code, to get it for all chapters), no automatic<br>
chapter numbering etc etc.<br>
<br>
With Scribus you have to more or less design each page manually. With<br>
LaTeX you set up the design "rules" and then LaTeX fills the pages<br>
with text automatically according to the rules you have set up.<br>
<br>
So, for projects where many pages have the same design (same margins,<br>
headers etc) LaTeX still beats Scribus. For projects where you want to<br>
be able to play around with the design of each page Scribus beats<br>
LaTeX.<br>
<br>
Of course the project CAN be done in Scribus, but it takes a lot more<br>
manual work.<br>
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/Peter<br>
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