2011/1/7 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> > Using LaTeX native might be confusing, but going by LyX is rather easy. > > One of my hobbies is bookbinding. When learning bokkbinding you of > course want books to bind. So, I went to Project Gutenberg and > downloaded a few books. They come as plain text files, but formatted > according to a few specific rules. The consistent formatting means > that it is quite easy to write a script to transfer to LaTeX format. > And of course someone has already done that, the script is called > gutenmark. > > I did that, imported the LaTeX file into Lyx, made some adjustments > and then exported to a PDF. Took me 10-15 minutes to get The > Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a printable PDF. >
Hi Peter, I am reading your post with much interest and wonder whether you'd like to give us a link where we could download the PDF you have produced with LyX? and even, the LaTeX file too? Thanks and happy new year ! Louis > > So I'd suggest that if editing LaTeX manually seems hard, try LyX. > > > I really can't see any good reason to use Scribus for a book with only > text, and one text frame per page. The reason is that Scribus still > lacks a lot of the automation you want for such a projekt. Scribus > can't do automatic running headers with the chapter name (in LaTeX > it's just one line of code, to get it for all chapters), no automatic > chapter numbering etc etc. > > With Scribus you have to more or less design each page manually. With > LaTeX you set up the design "rules" and then LaTeX fills the pages > with text automatically according to the rules you have set up. > > So, for projects where many pages have the same design (same margins, > headers etc) LaTeX still beats Scribus. For projects where you want to > be able to play around with the design of each page Scribus beats > LaTeX. > > Of course the project CAN be done in Scribus, but it takes a lot more > manual work. > > /Peter > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110107/adb07dc0/attachment.htm>
