As an experiment I am trying out a novel in Scribus. I converted the client's half dozen .DOC files to ODT format in Open Office, and I imported the first one (prologue and 10 chapters) into Scribus. Here are some problems. 1. Every step I take is so slow that I could almost take a coffee break between request and completion.
2. The novel text is in a uniform style. However Scribus managed to generate 28 different styles for essentally identical paragraphs. Is there something I should do as part of the importation process to reduce the number of styles? Or should I just go through and change the style of each such paragraph to a common one? 3. Paragraph indentation is excessive, but when I edit the style it shows nothing on the indentation graphic. How do I globally create a smaller indentation? This relates to comment 2 above I suspect. In hte sory editor the indent deletes as if it were a tab character. I will probably typset this novel in LaTeX. But I would like to work toward a viable methodology for using Scribus in similar projects. The environment is Slackware Linux and Scribus 1.3.3.10. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
