Am Donnerstag, 16. M?rz 2006 01:45 schrieb Steven Boothe: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 16. M?rz 2006 01:31 schrieb Steven Boothe: > >> Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > >>> Am Donnerstag, 16. M?rz 2006 01:05 schrieb Mayeul KAUFFMANN: > >>>>> If I were you, I would store my OO.o Writer file without any graphs > >>>>> and diagrams and import the text into Scribus. As for the image > >>>>> files, they are better stored separately and then imported into > >>>>> Scribus. This gives you _much_ more control over your layout in > >>>>> Scribus. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for your rapid answer ! > >>>> I have retried the way you say on two simple pages. Unfortunately, > >>>> footnotes get placed in the main text frame. Cross references are > >>>> transformed into plain text (not dynamic anymore). These 2 > >>>> shortcomings make it impractical to work on a scientific book in OOo > >>>> form into scribus, unless I missed something. So my question on *real* > >>>> text remains... Regards > >>>> Mayeul > >>> > >>> Hi Mayeul, > >>> > >>> one thing you discovered is that Scribus isn't the right tool for > >>> scientific publications (yet). The emphasis of DTP software is > >>> magazines, newspapers, flyers etc. For scientific publications, LaTeX > >>> is still the first choice, or, if you want to work the WYSIWIG way, > >>> FrameMaker or CorelPublisher. > >> > >> I thought LyX was also an equally viable WYSIWIG tool in this category > >> no? Even more so since it is Free Open Source Software. Of course it is > >> also available for win32 now too... > > > > Actually, LyX is no WYSIWIG tool. I think the LyX team would be quite > > upset if their program was called "WYSIWIG". They specifcally call their > > approach "WYSIWYM" (What you see is what you mean). LyX is just a more > > comfortable way of using LaTeX. > > Ah quite right. Still, would you not consider it in the list with > Framemaker and CorelPublisher as being a nice GUI for creating longer > Scientific / Technical documents?
Hi Steve, of course I would. It's just not a WYSIWIG editor. And compared to LaTeX, LyX is somewhat limited. Don't get me wrong. I love LyX, I even contributed to the German docs, but it's very different from FrameMaker or CorelPublisher. Cheers, Christoph
