On 09/23/2010 03:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Yes, I eventually learned that you can convince Lyx to do it your way, > but the whole idea of being forced to someone else's idea of good > design practice left me cold.
Sometimes it's a good idea for a program to come with "training wheels." The only thing is, there needs to be a way to take them off once you don't need them. For me, Scribus is just about right. I'm no expert typesetter, and I'm nowhere near good enough to be considered a professional, but I've done a fair amount of amateur page layout in my time and have a good idea what needs to be done. For me, at least, Scribus gives me the tools to do what I want then gets out of my way and lets me do it. Most of what I need to do is fairly easy to figure out, and when it's not, there's this mailing list and an IRC channel I can use. If part of your presentation is giving reasons your audience would want to use Scribus instead of something else (Closed Source/Expensive) this might be a good talking point: you can be up and running in short order, and expand your skills as you go.
