I am a newbie in the field of typesetting. Regardless, I am fascinated by the field and like other fields of art, find this terribly attractive.
My observations while going through Niyam's excellent tutorial, was that the following aspects - among numerous others, are crucial in producing professional grade documents. a. How to "space" content in the document - less is more. b. Know where to use which kind of fonts. c. Knowledge of the complete printing process. d. Color theory - especially being always aware that what we are creating in (the screen) is quite different from where it is ultimately coming out (the printer). This otherwise elementary concept is mostly missing from the vast population of word-processor users. Having some technical writing background, my interest (at present) primarily lies in creating technical documents, manuals, etc. for my normal development work. I would like to know if there are any Scribus scripted books and manuals - fiction/non-fiction, technical/non-technical (in Scribus source format, of course) which I can observe to get a "hang of the field". Like other fields of art, I do understand that typesetting is not something that you can read in a book and start off right away. It comes more from experience, a sense of aesthetics, a lot of observation power, among others. I just want some like a heads-up for starting off in this field. Also, is there a mailing list where general typesetting discussion takes place? Thanks, Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * sandip at puroga.com Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home: http://www.sandipb.net PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3
