> Hello Maciej, Hi Louis,
> > As a newcomer in the Linux world (part time also!!) I don't know > about Docbook. I am ready to use this if I can easily open it with > any (or most) Linux distributions. Otherwise, we could use PDF or > maybe OpenOffice format... Just thinking out loud! Docbook as the Scribus manual file format is meanwhile out of the question for reasons named by Craig, and I'm certainly not the Docbook expert on this mailing list, since I've just started diving into it. Nevertheless, I think, it's worth looking on. I experienced some vicious attacks of madness over "jumping" screen shots while translating Niyam's tutorial and swore to myself, to never ever again use OpenOffice or any other word processor for editing long documents. Docbook (here are some useful infos http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ ) is simply structured XML (or SGML) text data - you edit it once, using tags like <book>, <chapter>, <title>, <caption>, <para>, etc., and transform it then into the desired output file format (HTML, PDF, RTF, TeX, PS, etc.) using appriopriate XSL stylesheets. So it is mostly up to XSL stylesheet, how ugly or beatiful the final effect looks like. I've been editing it using Emacs with PSGML and Docbook DTD and I've got used to the few needed shortcuts pretty quickly. XEmacs or GNU Emacs are certainly included in your Linux distribution, here is everything you need to edit XML or SGML documents with it: http://www.snee.com/bob/sgmlfree/emcspsgm.zip (PDF, 500K). A small example of a Docbook file transformed into HTML: http://www.yarpen.cz/scribus-vlna/index.cz.html > > Having said that, I agree with your approach. I submitted a feature request regarding the integration of 3rd party docs into Scribus, perhaps would you like to add your twopence to it: http://bugs.scribus.net/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000830 best regards Maciej
