Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2007/4/25, John R. Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com > <mailto:john at wexfordpress.com>>: > > Is Scribus suitable for book length projects? Where would I look for > inofrmation on hypenation, TOC generation, Index generation, running > heads, widow and orphan supression and the like? My early attempts > have looked very crude when compared to the output of TeX etc. But > perhaps I am looking at the wrong tutorials. > > > Hi John, > > It depends mostly on the kind of "book length project" you have in > mind. If you have a long text and need TOC and Index and > widow/orphan control I would suggest you use another software. If > the book you plan to make has lots of pages but at the same time can > be splitted easily into smaller parts and has also quite a lot > images and graphics... then I would consider Scribus. Also, please > note things are evolving rapidly. Scribus might just be the software > you need in a couple of months from now. Hyphenation in Scribus > still misses a good exception engine but it works in lots of > languages and the results aren't that bad. Depends mostly on the > quality you are after. I could envision a book relatively short on text and heavy on graphics that Scribus might do well with. A book of poems would be well-suited. But heavy text, with features as you describe, it just doesn't make sense, and perhaps never will.
Greg
