On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:29, linuxlingam wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 00:34, Maciej Hanski wrote: > > > Hello Maciej, > > > > Hi Louis, > > > > > > > > As a newcomer in the Linux world (part time also!!) I don't know > > > about Docbook. [snip] > > > Docbook as the Scribus manual > > [snip] > > > I experienced some > > vicious attacks of madness over "jumping" screen shots while translating > > Niyam's tutorial and swore to myself, to never ever again use OpenOffice > > or any other word processor for editing long documents. Docbook (here are > > some useful infos > > http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ ) is simply structured XML > > (or SGML) text data - you edit it once, using tags like <book>, > [snip] > > oops! or rather, OO.ops [grin] > > a lot of people pointed out that to me, and the jury is still out on > whether that's a bug or a feature. :-) > > you could mail that to OO.o and they'll certainly fix it if its a bug. > meanwhile, glad to see someone still using and appreciating SGML. the > OO.o fileformat is essentially xml, though i have yet to meet someone > who can extract data using some script or tool, and repurpose it, via > xslt. incidentally, the content management system (cms) plone, does > that. www.plone.org. you can upload an OO.o file and it can give you > concurrent fileformats of that file: html, pdf, etc etc... > > OO.o was used for the tutorial for several strong reasons, which are > mentioned in the archive of the mailing lists. glad that peter attemted > a scribus version of the tutorial too. i wonder if he's completed it. > craig and peter published an html version of the tutorial, so in case > someone wishes to copy and paste from there, you can. > > craig mentions correctly that the tutorial is getting dated, which is a > great sign of the logarithmic progress of scribus. the tutorial's > essential focus is on 'getting started' and on sharing the secrets of > typographer's and publishing-design specialists, on how to approach > page-design. thanks to the FDL, several outdated and redundant aspects > of the tutorial can be updated, edited, and i actively encourage that.
As it was the last tutorial (that I know of) that has been written/updated, its still quite up to date.. but some of the others, while commendable efforts at the time, some areas of them are almost certainly quite unusable in certain areas. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040624/b454256f/attachment.pgp
