Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? LyX does not do page layout (thank goodness). Scribus does not do math. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely different animals. One is a text processing program, the other a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use Scribus to produce a mathmatical textbook. --- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
LyX vs. Scribus
Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
You can use Srcibus for Invitations or (more intersting for publishers) to design cover pages for books and thesis work. I used Inkscape for my cover page since I was not familiar with Scribus. While working on another document I learned a bit more. The PDF generation is really good. The user interface could become a bit more intuitive... a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use A German mangazine on free software and Linux uses Latex to produce a very nice layout: http://www.freies-magazin.de/2007/freiesMagazin-2007-07.pdf On the page they even share their Latex layout which looks quite professional: http://www.elyps.de/magazin.html regards, Timmie
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:33, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Steve, I've used Lyx for about five years, and Scribus for about one. Lyx is far more useful to me, but Scribus has its uses. Lyx takes care of the layout automatically; Scribus practically demands that you lay every page out individually (sketching the page layout on paper is recommended as the first step). Lyx is highly suited to writing text; Scribus is not recommended for writing text. Lyx adheres to accepted typesetting conventions; Scribus lets you mess things up completely. Lyx places figures and tables automatically; Scribus lets (makes) you put each one wherever you want it. Lyx has great support for crossreferencing and bibliographies; Scribus has none. Lyx is easy to learn; Scribus is not. Scribus allows you to put a graphic item exactly where you want it, and to overlay multiple graphic and text items with varying degrees of transparency; Lyx does not. Lyx is a lightweight program which runs happily on almost any computer; Scribus has brought my Athlon 64 X2 workstation with 2GB RAM to its knees. Scribus allows use of any font installed on your computer, and can scale and distort it any way you want; Lyx does not support this. Scribus has complex color management for text, graphics and lines; Lyx has limited color support. I've used Lyx for letters, reports, books, articles and presentations (with Powerdot) ranging from a single page of text to hundreds of pages with hundreds of figures. I've used Scribus only for a couple of poster papers, and found it an excellent tool for the job. I completed six posters 6ft x 3ft in about a week; each poster has about ten text boxes and about five pictures. I'd use Scribus for a brochure or poster without hesitation; it might also be best for a short newsletter. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? LyX does not do page layout (thank goodness). Scribus does not do math. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely different animals. One is a text processing program, the other a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use Scribus to produce a mathmatical textbook. --- Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
LyX vs. Scribus
Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
You can use Srcibus for Invitations or (more intersting for publishers) to design cover pages for books and thesis work. I used Inkscape for my cover page since I was not familiar with Scribus. While working on another document I learned a bit more. The PDF generation is really good. The user interface could become a bit more intuitive... a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use A German mangazine on free software and Linux uses Latex to produce a very nice layout: http://www.freies-magazin.de/2007/freiesMagazin-2007-07.pdf On the page they even share their Latex layout which looks quite professional: http://www.elyps.de/magazin.html regards, Timmie
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:33, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Steve, I've used Lyx for about five years, and Scribus for about one. Lyx is far more useful to me, but Scribus has its uses. Lyx takes care of the layout automatically; Scribus practically demands that you lay every page out individually (sketching the page layout on paper is recommended as the first step). Lyx is highly suited to writing text; Scribus is not recommended for writing text. Lyx adheres to accepted typesetting conventions; Scribus lets you mess things up completely. Lyx places figures and tables automatically; Scribus lets (makes) you put each one wherever you want it. Lyx has great support for crossreferencing and bibliographies; Scribus has none. Lyx is easy to learn; Scribus is not. Scribus allows you to put a graphic item exactly where you want it, and to overlay multiple graphic and text items with varying degrees of transparency; Lyx does not. Lyx is a lightweight program which runs happily on almost any computer; Scribus has brought my Athlon 64 X2 workstation with 2GB RAM to its knees. Scribus allows use of any font installed on your computer, and can scale and distort it any way you want; Lyx does not support this. Scribus has complex color management for text, graphics and lines; Lyx has limited color support. I've used Lyx for letters, reports, books, articles and presentations (with Powerdot) ranging from a single page of text to hundreds of pages with hundreds of figures. I've used Scribus only for a couple of poster papers, and found it an excellent tool for the job. I completed six posters 6ft x 3ft in about a week; each poster has about ten text boxes and about five pictures. I'd use Scribus for a brochure or poster without hesitation; it might also be best for a short newsletter. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: > Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and > Scribus? LyX does not do page layout (thank goodness). Scribus does not do math. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
I have only had a quick look at it but it is a desktop publishing program like the old pagemaker. As far as I could see it was designed to take existing text and images and produce a nice output. It seems to handle linked frames, call-outs etc well. LyX and Scribus are almost completely different animals. One is a text processing program, the other a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use Scribus to produce a mathmatical textbook. --- Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just heard about a program called Scribus, > which supposedly is a page > layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The > program's web page is at > http://www.scribus.net/. > > I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me > the differences between LyX > and Scribus? > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and > courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
LyX vs. Scribus
Hi all, I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is at http://www.scribus.net/. I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between LyX and Scribus? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
You can use Srcibus for Invitations or (more intersting for publishers) to design cover pages for books and thesis work. I used Inkscape for my cover page since I was not familiar with Scribus. While working on another document I learned a bit more. The PDF generation is really good. The user interface could become a bit more intuitive... a page layout program. I would hestiate to use LyX to publish the local club newsletter and would not use A German mangazine on free software and Linux uses Latex to produce a very nice layout: http://www.freies-magazin.de/2007/freiesMagazin-2007-07.pdf On the page they even share their Latex layout which looks quite professional: http://www.elyps.de/magazin.html regards, Timmie
Re: LyX vs. Scribus
On Friday 20 July 2007 12:33, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just heard about a program called Scribus, which supposedly is a page > layout program and not a wordprocessing program. The program's web page is > at http://www.scribus.net/. > > I'm not familiar with Scribus. Can someone tell me the differences between > LyX and Scribus? > Steve, I've used Lyx for about five years, and Scribus for about one. Lyx is far more useful to me, but Scribus has its uses. Lyx takes care of the layout automatically; Scribus practically demands that you lay every page out individually (sketching the page layout on paper is recommended as the first step). Lyx is highly suited to writing text; Scribus is not recommended for writing text. Lyx adheres to accepted typesetting conventions; Scribus lets you mess things up completely. Lyx places figures and tables automatically; Scribus lets (makes) you put each one wherever you want it. Lyx has great support for crossreferencing and bibliographies; Scribus has none. Lyx is easy to learn; Scribus is not. Scribus allows you to put a graphic item exactly where you want it, and to overlay multiple graphic and text items with varying degrees of transparency; Lyx does not. Lyx is a lightweight program which runs happily on almost any computer; Scribus has brought my Athlon 64 X2 workstation with 2GB RAM to its knees. Scribus allows use of any font installed on your computer, and can scale and distort it any way you want; Lyx does not support this. Scribus has complex color management for text, graphics and lines; Lyx has limited color support. I've used Lyx for letters, reports, books, articles and presentations (with Powerdot) ranging from a single page of text to hundreds of pages with hundreds of figures. I've used Scribus only for a couple of poster papers, and found it an excellent tool for the job. I completed six posters 6ft x 3ft in about a week; each poster has about ten text boxes and about five pictures. I'd use Scribus for a brochure or poster without hesitation; it might also be best for a short newsletter. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
