On 3 feb 2008, at 17:28, Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> 1. InDesign > > It would be helpful if we could do this in Free Software. Have you > looked at Scribus?
No, I haven't - the only reason we're working with InDesign is because the sources are InDesign, which I got from Hesperian by asking nicely. For new XO content, I would not choose InDesign, or any other paper- oriented design tool. I'll look into Scribus, is that a similar tool? I tend to use LaTeX or OOo for open content. >> After Maja and I are done with 'Donde hay ...', we're likely to also >> do the english edition (but not before aug-2008). The other books >> will >> have to be worked on by other people. > > Yes, we need to recruit more people. I'm working on ways to keep track > of our projects and the people working on them, and to get the word > out about what we need. Mainly I'm asking people what they would > suggest, and then suggesting that they work on it. ^_^ But it's rather > chaotic right now. Working on 'Donde hay...', it is very apparent that the work in InDesign is about 60 minutes per chapter, but then redoing all the tables-like layout in the chapters takes another 2-3 hours, if you're lucky. This job parallelizes nicely, though. Each chapter XHTML is a separate project. It'd be really nice if we had a way to dish out work like that. Doing a single chapter is a manageable chunk of work, and the result is visible right away. I think it's fun to do, except for the part where it takes 100 hours to do the whole book if you have to do it alone. If we can setup a team of people working on jobs like this, it'll be more fun and diverse for everyone. - Pascal. _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
