welcome Marten On Monday 24 of January 2005 20:40, maarten at mplusplus.nl wrote: > -I'm intending to make up my master-thesis in Scribus and I am not an > computer-science student. What do you reckon, coudl it be a could idea? > (I'm graduating in Industrial Design)
I'm sure you can. I've got one thing in my mind - you could have problems with tables. I suppose (as you are "art-technical" student) you will need tables... there are several hacks for tables management because tables in Scribus are little bit weak. You can create table in e.g. OOo save/print it as EPS then insert as image. BTW I know some schools/universities which have templates done in LaTeX/MS Word (as I had with my thesis years ago[*]). You can expect time consuming tasks to fit it right in Scribus. Propably ;) and one more issue: Scribus is not text editor. You can write texts in it of course *BUT* it's quite uncomfortable. The best what you can do - and it's "common DTP workflow" - is to have text before using scribus, then specify styles for paragraphs and titles, and then apply these styles on text. > -Would Scribus be able to import anything else but plain txt? Something > like RTF, HTML, OppenOffice or even (eeek!) MSWord? LaTeX? txt, OOo, MS Word via OOo, HTML. [*] - but there was no Scribus (or I didn't know about it) so I was saved from this to_be_or_not_to_bee question :) petr P.S.: I do appologise for my large "smalltalks" above. I'm sure you know it all already. I'm just too tired to stop writting my useless characters... boo-hoo... -- Petr Vanek -------------- petr [at] yarpen [dot] cz www.yarpen.cz ---------------- Kuolema Kaikille (Paitsi Meille) ------------------------------- Today is good day to end it all -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050124/e1dca4f8/attachment.pgp
