On Friday 15 December 2006 14:25, wtb41 wrote: > I have written a book containing no graphics (no pictures or charts); it > has straight type, bulleted lists, numbered lists, and tables. I need the > ability to automate the building of a table of contents and an index. In > addition to the standard font for type, I need a font (expert set) > providing small caps, ligatures, and oldstyle figures. I need to be able to > produce a PDF with embedded fonts. I also need an option regarding > subsetting of the embedded fonts (some book manufacturers want subsetting; > others don't). > > As far as I know, the open-source community offers 2 applications that > might be used to meet my needs. They are (1) Scribus and (2) > OpenOffice.org's Writer. Neither of these applications is feasible today. > Here are the reasons: > > 1. Scribus cannot (a) automate the building of a table of contents and an > index or (b) import tables. The procedures that have been sketched to me > for getting tables (from another document) into a Scribus document are too > onerous to be considered seriously (my book has many tables). So scratch > Scribus off the list of feasible solutions.
Its not very automatic, but Scribus does have a TOC generator. Craig
