Hi Fredrik, I have completed 3 novels and 2 children's books using scribus. I generally add one chapter at a time to one scribus file. I like to do one chapter at a time so that if there are any formatting issues I can fix them by chapter, rather than the whole book. I have had no problem with adding my chapters into one file. For my covers I use Gimp.
You are welcome to visit my website www.thenorthpolepress.com to look at the books I have published. Good Luck, Mary On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Fredrik Jonson <fredrik at jonson.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just begun editing a book in scribus, and I have a few questions. > > The book will have a soft cover and contain about 250 pages, mostly text. > There will be a few images, probably greyscale inline in the text chaptes, > and a separate color image section in the middle or end of the book. > > Each chapter is 10 - 30 pages. I've seen advice on the list that some > people > keep each chapter in a separate scribus document for performance reasons. > But is that really necessary? If I use contemporary hardware, does scribus > still have a hard time with < 300 pages mostly text? > > I'd like to use footnotes in each chapter, and afaiu it is available in > 1.5, > which isn't released yet. I'm on 1.4.4 on Ubuntu. What is your advice? > Should I try to install 1.5, and if so, what is the best way to do that on > Ubuntu 14.04? (I don't mind a few bugs, so the fact that it isn't released > yet doesn't scare me too much. Beta quality is definitively ok, pre-alpha, > perhaps not so much. But I'm willing to give it a go. :) What are the > alternatives if I'm stuck on 1.4.4. Any examples of manual footnote > handling, etc? > > In the best of worlds, I'd like to automatically import footnotes from ODT > libreoffice documents. That'd be awesome. :) > > Is there any way to automatically add text frames that fills the page > margin > when you add pages? Right now I'm copy/pasting a blank text frame as I go > when I add pages, but that's a bit tedious and error prone. > > The search/replace in the story editor is great. I get scripts that have > titles prefixed with H1, H2, etc, so it is easy to map that to the styles > I've edited and remove the prefix from the text in one go. Now, as a I have > many chapters, I wonder if I can script that, rather than do it manually? > Does the python script api contain any functions similar to the story > editor > search/replace. I like that the script language in scribus is python btw, > yay! > > Is there any way to remove the "Default character style" and "Default > paragraph style"? I just want the styles I'm actually using, to reduce > editing mistakes. > > BTW, the style editor is a bit funky, it doesn't always update when values > are changed, and sometimes values like selected font, and style inheritance > seems to get lost while editing and switching between tabs. But I guess > these are known bugs for 1.4.4? > > Oh, and in general, what is the common way to work with cover pages? Do > I maintain that as a separate document? > > Guess that's it for now. Thanks for a great piece of software, and thanks > in advance for any comments. > > -- > Fredrik Jonson > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150115/9dec30ca/attachment.html>
