D. R. Evans wrote: > Gregory Pittman said the following at 01/15/2009 05:19 PM : > > >> I was hoping Christoph could step forward at some point answer these >> kinds of questions, but my sense of it, having been part of the creation >> but not the layout, was that this was a rather brute force effort on >> Christoph's part - just manually done. I was the initiator of the index, >> which was really just a list of words, that got appended as we went. >> >> > > Just as you were hoping that Cristoph would answer the question, I was > hoping that the answer wasn't going to be what it was :-( > > I'll stick with good ol' TeX for this job then, I think. I hate doing > indices, but at least there are enough TeX macros around to make the job > just about bearable. I was kind of hoping I could do this book with > Scribus, partly for the learning experience and partly because I think it's > likely much easier to do fancy layout (sidebars with light grey > backgrounds, for example). Whether Scribus is as good at the actual > typesetting was something I was interested in discovering, too. > > Never mind; maybe by the time I do my next book there will be some > reasonably automated way to do indices. > > Yes, there are things coming which will help. For various reasons, things like indices are a bit down the list of priorities at the moment. > I do use Scribus for covers, though. It's great for that, even though I'm > using only a tiny part of its potential. > > And I did order the manual (using personal funds, since they didn't take my > company's credit card), so I'll have in which to immerse myself once it > arrives. > One of the things I hope to achieve with the manual is wider use of Scribus, since I think for some they need to see the book to get a sense that learning Scribus is something they can manage.
Greg
