On Thursday 26 April 2007 09:06, andreas.karlsson at ltv.se wrote: > It of course depends on what kind of book you are writing. > > If you are just writing a novel, you could use an ordinary word > processor, such as AbiWord. > > If you are writing a scientific book including index, TOC, > references, bibliography, footnotes, etc, use a document processor, > such as LyX (http://www.lyx.org/). > > If you are writing a book that more looks like a newspaper or a > magazine, with lots of different shorter and lengthier texts as > well as images and other graphics, use a DTP software such as > Scribus. > > Pick the right tool for the right task. > > Andreas
I am pretty much in agreement. However I typeset novels and memoirs using TeX, usually the pdftex variant. Abiword and its like won't give me either the automaticity or the control I get with TeX. Recently I bid on a job with illustrations on every page, followed by text. I tried Scribus but the text part was so inferior I resubmitted it in plain pdftex. The customer liked the second version much better. I need to learn how to handle text better in Scribus for this kind of work. Anyone up for a tutorial on text handling, paragraph styles and the like? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
