Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 23:36:08 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > I have been redoing a workbook originally written and laid out in OOo, > as a tool to learn Scribus. In the past I have used QuarkXPress, > PageMaker, InDesign, Ventura, and various other layout and graphics > programs. I love Scribus, but when I go to the wiki to try to figure > out how to do something I can't find it. Many times I later discover > that my problem was not that the feature was missing but, rather, that > I was searching with the wrong terminology. > > The wiki needs a "translator," or better stated, a "see xxx" utility. > > I thought of creating this myself as a my small contribution to the > project, but I can't think of all the terms. Every program has its own > terminology, but corraling them all into one list is beyond me. I don't > even always remember what a term a particular program used for a > feature. And there are hundreds and hundreds of DTP terms. > > I thought if I posted this here on the list other users could chime in > with suggestions for terms to include in a "terminology translator" > from other programs to Scribus-ese. Ultimately this could be > incorporated into the wiki so that when a new user searches for a term > it will pop up with the Scribus equivalents. > > Am I crazy?
Certainly not ;) > Is this worth doing? Is this even possible? It's possible to a certain extent. The printed manual contains a table with a comparison between InDesign's, XPress's and Scribus's terminology. HTH Christoph
