>On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:58:08 +0100 Blue Beehive <alan at bluebeehive.com> >Wrote: >My question is simple. Where do I start? Which comes first in the >learning curve. Scribus, the other programs, terminology, the file >types? I am surrounded, nay buried, in 'new stuff'. So much so that I >have lost all sense or direction and have no idea where the door is. Can >anybody point to it. -- Please! > >Alan
Your suspicions are correct Sir. The spiny feeling is caused by the terminology. You must have the exact definitions of the words in order to understand the subject completely. I found wikipedia to be a great help. English is my first and only language from which you may deduce I am American. Added to the confusion for me is reading English written by the many wonderful folks who have English as a second or third language. Their ways of saying things does not at first easily find its way through the rather substantial thickness of my head. I too volunteered to publish a book for a man that is in prison. Had no idea what I was getting myself into. Just now beginning the seventh month of the project, feeling a bit more confident in my explorations of not only Scribus but the Gimp. The on-line tutorials at MeetTheGimp.org have been most inspiring. Am awaiting the day when someone does tutorials for Scribus. It evidently takes the patience of a school teacher to produce these things. So get your dictionary in hand, use the handy "define:[word]" in your favorite search engine and you will have your feet solidly on the ground in no time. Tom
