Lorn, I have not used Scribus for this purpose, but I used it for preparing lessons for a class in church some time ago. It works very very well for that. This is a similar applications, because the lessons I taught were each fairly short, but the aggregate was fairly long. I didn't use any sophisticated formatting, but I did use lots of illustrations and drawings. It works well for that. I can't give you guidance as to the processes, because I actually WROTE the documents in Scribus rather than in a word-processor. I guess I wonder why you would use Scribus as the formatter and not just use the word processing program. I know that many novels have been created in Word or Open Office (and other word processors), so it does interest me. I have a couple nonfiction books I've been working on that I did in Word, and that worked out quite well, and it was easy to do.<div>
Steve Bradley<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, LORN MACINTYRE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com">lorn.macintyre@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am endeavouring to use Scribus in order to edit a novel of 20 chapters,<br>
importing the files from Microsoft Word via OpenOffice in order to preserve the<br>
formatting. There seems to be little information on the web about this type of<br>
project, so it would be good to hear from subscribers who have already done this<br>
for a novel or short story collection, so that I can profit from their<br>
experience and perhaps eventually put together a step-by-step process which will<br>
help other writers and save time and frustration with regard to font choices,<br>
kerning, etc.<br>
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Thanks in anticipation,<br>
Scottie<br>
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