Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 04:10:51 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:23:49 -0600 > > "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com> dijo: > > I'm sure this is answered somewhere in the manual, but I can't find it > > (actually, that's my biggest complaint about the manual... I just cannot > > find stuff in it; maybe I'm just too used to the TeXbook's index). > > I don't have the manual, but I have spent hours trying to find stuff in > the Wiki and other documentation, frequently without luck. I have a > theory that might explain my lack of skill at finding things. > > I have never used TeX, but I have used a number of other layout apps - > PageMaker, QuarkXpress, Ventura, InDesign - and I think my problem is > terminology. For example, I search for how to do a tab and can't find > it. How was I to know that Scribus calls it a tabulator?
Perhaps because those have been synonyms since the age of typewriters, i.e. more than hundred years? > I could go on > and on, but I think y'all see my point. Even people new to the whole > idea of DTP don't know the Scribus terms for things. Yet the > documentation typically contains only the Scribus term. One reasonable approach is to try to read the user interface, imho. This should be a good starting point. Another issue has more to do with the way the wiki software works. You have two choices to search for an item: "Go" and "Search". It's recommended to use "search" if you're unsure whether a title actually contains the search term. It may also be useful to search for terms in both US and UK spellling (e.g. "color" and "colour"). > > I am wondering if we could somehow create a table of terminology for > the various apps with the Scribus equivalents. If Scribus and all the > other common apps call it the same thing (eg., "paragraph style"), this > would not need to be included. But if any of the other apps uses a > different term, this should be listed. > > This could become a mini-project within the documentation side of > Scribus. Ultimately the results could be incorporated into the Wiki and > the index for the manual. Guess what? A table with Scribus, XPress and InDesign terms is part of the manual :) Moreover, since I created the table, I noted that the Scribus terminology is quite similar to XPress, although in some cases it's closer to InDesign. There are only a few instances of terms that are completely different. Christoph
