hm, IMHO this text should be mentioned on scribus.net as a part of the "holly book of the typographer"...
On Friday 09 of January 2004 20:04, Mardigrafe - Louis Desjardins wrote: > Here is basically how we generally deal with such more or less complicated > documents. I didn't try it with Scribus but we do that with Quark all the > time with long text documents and complicated layouts. It should work. > > Let's cut down the process into pieces! > > Let's assume your text is its definitive form (edited, revised, proofread) > > Step 1 : Define your "typographic grid" based on the layout you want to > achieve : all this with the help of stylesheets. > > Step 2 : Test these parameters on a few pages to see how they fit and don't > forget to identify in your text the longest and shortest occurences (again, > to see how this fits with the typographic grid you intend to work with) of > titles, subtitles, legends, etc. - basically, all elements of the text for > which your layout requires so many text boxes. > > Step 3 : Once this is all done, format all your text using the stylesheets > you defined (and I mean, all your text : you'll get used to this after a > while and will only be more efficient). To achieve this, you can just > create a new document in Scribus with only one text box and so many linked > pages to fit the complete raw text. Then, using the stylesheets, do the > formatting. > > Step 4 : Once your text is all properly formatted you can easily print it > and proofread it, and make de last minute changes. This will be easy > because there is no layout in the way... > > Step 5 : Create your pages with empty text boxes according to your layout > (this will be the final document). > > Step 6 : Copy/paste from the formatted text to the layout and make all > necessary adjustments. > > Ideally, you would be able to use the same stylesheet in both documents. > > I hope this helps! -- Petr Vanek -------------- petr [at] yarpen [dot] cz www.yarpen.cz ---------------- Kuolema Kaikille (Paitsi Meille) ------------------------------- Today is good day to end it all -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: signature Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040110/4b02d15f/attachment.pgp
