Am Donnerstag, 16. M?rz 2006 01:31 schrieb Steven Boothe: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. M?rz 2006 01:05 schrieb Mayeul KAUFFMANN: > >>> If I were you, I would store my OO.o Writer file without any graphs and > >>> diagrams and import the text into Scribus. As for the image files, they > >>> are better stored separately and then imported into Scribus. This gives > >>> you _much_ more control over your layout in Scribus. > >> > >> Thanks for your rapid answer ! > >> I have retried the way you say on two simple pages. Unfortunately, > >> footnotes get placed in the main text frame. Cross references are > >> transformed into plain text (not dynamic anymore). These 2 shortcomings > >> make it impractical to work on a scientific book in OOo form into > >> scribus, unless I missed something. So my question on *real* text > >> remains... Regards > >> Mayeul > > > > Hi Mayeul, > > > > one thing you discovered is that Scribus isn't the right tool for > > scientific publications (yet). The emphasis of DTP software is magazines, > > newspapers, flyers etc. For scientific publications, LaTeX is still the > > first choice, or, if you want to work the WYSIWIG way, FrameMaker or > > CorelPublisher. > > I thought LyX was also an equally viable WYSIWIG tool in this category > no? Even more so since it is Free Open Source Software. Of course it is > also available for win32 now too...
Actually, LyX is no WYSIWIG tool. I think the LyX team would be quite upset if their program was called "WYSIWIG". They specifcally call their approach "WYSIWYM" (What you see is what you mean). LyX is just a more comfortable way of using LaTeX. > > I hope that helps too. > > Steven Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
