Gregory Pittman said the following at 01/15/2009 05:19 PM : > I was hoping Christoph could step forward at some point answer these > kinds of questions, but my sense of it, having been part of the creation > but not the layout, was that this was a rather brute force effort on > Christoph's part - just manually done. I was the initiator of the index, > which was really just a list of words, that got appended as we went. >
Just as you were hoping that Cristoph would answer the question, I was hoping that the answer wasn't going to be what it was :-( I'll stick with good ol' TeX for this job then, I think. I hate doing indices, but at least there are enough TeX macros around to make the job just about bearable. I was kind of hoping I could do this book with Scribus, partly for the learning experience and partly because I think it's likely much easier to do fancy layout (sidebars with light grey backgrounds, for example). Whether Scribus is as good at the actual typesetting was something I was interested in discovering, too. Never mind; maybe by the time I do my next book there will be some reasonably automated way to do indices. I do use Scribus for covers, though. It's great for that, even though I'm using only a tiny part of its potential. And I did order the manual (using personal funds, since they didn't take my company's credit card), so I'll have in which to immerse myself once it arrives. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090115/2503fc19/attachment.pgp>
