Gregory Pittman said the following at 01/15/2009 07:16 PM : >> >> Never mind; maybe by the time I do my next book there will be some >> reasonably automated way to do indices. >> >> > Yes, there are things coming which will help. For various reasons, > things like indices are a bit down the list of priorities at the moment.
I'm glad that indices are being worked on, even if at a low priority. To my mind, it's probably obvious they're the one big obvious missing thing that stops me at least trying to write a proper book. >> > One of the things I hope to achieve with the manual is wider use of > Scribus, since I think for some they need to see the book to get a sense > that learning Scribus is something they can manage. Yes, I'm hoping that that's what it will do for me. Even though I know developers mean well with various other ways to deliver information, I simply find it to too difficult to struggle to get every tiny question answered, because each time you go through some variation of the sequence: 1. Look everywhere you can think of to find the answer (which may easily take a quarter of an hour, even for a simple question). 2. If you can't find it, ask someone. 3. Try to understand a usually-ambiguous answer that answers a slightly different question from the one asked. 4. go back to 2. So I hope that the manual will eliminate a lot of that. 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/20090116/f7edfd0b/attachment.pgp>
