<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Fredrik,<br><br></div>I have completed 3 novels and 2 children's books using scribus. I generally add one chapter at a time to one scribus file. I like to do one chapter at a time so that if there are any formatting issues I can fix them by chapter, rather than the whole book. I have had no problem with adding my chapters into one file. <br></div>For my covers I use Gimp.<br><br></div>You are welcome to visit my website <a href="http://www.thenorthpolepress.com">www.thenorthpolepress.com</a> to look at the books I have published.<br><br></div>Good Luck,<br></div>Mary<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Fredrik Jonson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredrik@jonson.org" target="_blank">fredrik@jonson.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi All,<br>
<br>
I've just begun editing a book in scribus, and I have a few questions.<br>
<br>
The book will have a soft cover and contain about 250 pages, mostly text.<br>
There will be a few images, probably greyscale inline in the text chaptes,<br>
and a separate color image section in the middle or end of the book.<br>
<br>
Each chapter is 10 - 30 pages. I've seen advice on the list that some people<br>
keep each chapter in a separate scribus document for performance reasons.<br>
But is that really necessary? If I use contemporary hardware, does scribus<br>
still have a hard time with < 300 pages mostly text?<br>
<br>
I'd like to use footnotes in each chapter, and afaiu it is available in 1.5,<br>
which isn't released yet. I'm on 1.4.4 on Ubuntu. What is your advice?<br>
Should I try to install 1.5, and if so, what is the best way to do that on<br>
Ubuntu 14.04? (I don't mind a few bugs, so the fact that it isn't released<br>
yet doesn't scare me too much. Beta quality is definitively ok, pre-alpha,<br>
perhaps not so much. But I'm willing to give it a go. :) What are the<br>
alternatives if I'm stuck on 1.4.4. Any examples of manual footnote<br>
handling, etc?<br>
<br>
In the best of worlds, I'd like to automatically import footnotes from ODT<br>
libreoffice documents. That'd be awesome. :)<br>
<br>
Is there any way to automatically add text frames that fills the page margin<br>
when you add pages? Right now I'm copy/pasting a blank text frame as I go<br>
when I add pages, but that's a bit tedious and error prone.<br>
<br>
The search/replace in the story editor is great. I get scripts that have<br>
titles prefixed with H1, H2, etc, so it is easy to map that to the styles<br>
I've edited and remove the prefix from the text in one go. Now, as a I have<br>
many chapters, I wonder if I can script that, rather than do it manually?<br>
Does the python script api contain any functions similar to the story editor<br>
search/replace. I like that the script language in scribus is python btw,<br>
yay!<br>
<br>
Is there any way to remove the "Default character style" and "Default<br>
paragraph style"? I just want the styles I'm actually using, to reduce<br>
editing mistakes.<br>
<br>
BTW, the style editor is a bit funky, it doesn't always update when values<br>
are changed, and sometimes values like selected font, and style inheritance<br>
seems to get lost while editing and switching between tabs. But I guess<br>
these are known bugs for 1.4.4?<br>
<br>
Oh, and in general, what is the common way to work with cover pages? Do<br>
I maintain that as a separate document?<br>
<br>
Guess that's it for now. Thanks for a great piece of software, and thanks<br>
in advance for any comments.<br>
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