On Wednesday 22 September 2010 23:06:33 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:48:35 -0600 > > Rob Oakes <lyx-devel at oak-tree.us> dijo: > >This isn't exclusive to Scribus, but I recently gave a > > presentation to a local LUG on different open source > > writing/publishing tools. The slides and an overview of the > > presentation can be found at: > > > >http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/08/19/linux-typography > > Thanks for the suggestions and the link to your presentation. > > As a preliminary notion I have decided to avoid the Latex v. > Scribus issue, i.e., which is the right tool for the job. I have > only an hour and a half. Such a topic would generate flames that I > would prefer to avoid. I just want to present Scribus, what it can > do, and a bit about why it rocks. > > A preliminary idea I have is to arrive with printouts to hand out > of really beautiful pages done in Scribus, and then go through how > the pages are created in Scribus, running Scribus on my machine > projected on the screen. I may abandon this idea as I think further > about the talk. > > Having said that, Rob has made me aware of something else. When > finished, whatever slides and materials I produce should be posted > somewhere. Is there a Scribus place to do this? > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I have never viewed TeX and Scribus as rivals but rather as complementary tools. I would never try to set a 286 page novel or an academic text in Scribus. And I would not do a cover in anything other than Scribus 1.5.0. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
