Le 06/01/2011 15:38, LORN MACINTYRE a ?crit : > Dear Jean-Louis, > > Thanks for this advice about LaTex being preferable to Scribus for my > purposes. > How does the transfer from Word XP work? I dont use Word XP. But OpenOffice can open all word documents (*.doc and *.docx) > Do the files go straight into LaTex or via Open Office? When you export a doc file or odt file with Oo you get a *.tex file. Then open it with a text editor (Notepad++ or Gvim or others with syntax coloration) or better with texmaker or mewa http://www.meshwalk.com/latexeditor/ > Will headers and footers (running titles and page numbers) be preserved? Very easy to set ; on line to say "I need page numbers". One for style (arabic, or others like v vii ix (in the beggining introduction or so) > What do I do about kerning? I presume nothing. Latex handles very welle with ligature (like fi or ffi and son on) > Can I transfer pages into PDF format? Yes. > Where is the best place on the Web for a tutorial on LaTex? to begin with http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Absolute_Beginners This (html page in frech, but tuto in english (164 pages)
The easiest way : I send you an example file (2 attached file : tex source ; resulting pdf) I took one of my file and crate a "book ; ten minutes as I said) > Regards, > Lorn > > > ________________________________ > From: Jean-Louis Cordonnier<jlcord2 at wanadoo.fr> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Sent: Thursday, 6 January, 2011 13:27:30 > Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories > > It's possible to export odt file to tex file with a plugin = writer2latex > http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/ > I agree with the choice of LaTeX. > If your book is only text + chapter titles, it takes only 10 minutes to > do the whole job with LaTeX ! > Try to know if this tool fits to your wishes. > > JL > ________________________________ >> From: Rob Oakes<lyx-devel at oak-tree.us> >> To: Scribus User Mailing List<scribus at lists.scribus.info> >> Sent: Wednesday, 5 January, 2011 16:52:19 >> Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for novels and short stories >> >> Hi Scottie, >> >> An alternative to using pure LaTeX might be to convert the word documents to >> LyX, which provides a WYSIWYG wrapper that can simplify editing. Then, you > can >> either work to create a custom style sheet or document class so that your >> book >> has a distinctive look. >> > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL:<http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110106/2b2678b1/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe autre que texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: novel.tex Type: text/x-tex Taille: 4783 octets Desc: non disponible URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110106/c4bcd58c/attachment.tex> -------------- section suivante -------------- Une pi?ce jointe autre que texte a ?t? nettoy?e... Nom: novel.pdf Type: application/pdf Taille: 29264 octets Desc: non disponible URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110106/c4bcd58c/attachment.pdf>
