Lorn, I have not used Scribus for this purpose, but I used it for preparing lessons for a class in church some time ago. It works very very well for that. This is a similar applications, because the lessons I taught were each fairly short, but the aggregate was fairly long. I didn't use any sophisticated formatting, but I did use lots of illustrations and drawings. It works well for that. I can't give you guidance as to the processes, because I actually WROTE the documents in Scribus rather than in a word-processor. I guess I wonder why you would use Scribus as the formatter and not just use the word processing program. I know that many novels have been created in Word or Open Office (and other word processors), so it does interest me. I have a couple nonfiction books I've been working on that I did in Word, and that worked out quite well, and it was easy to do. Steve Bradley
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, LORN MACINTYRE < lorn.macintyre at btinternet.com> wrote: > I am endeavouring to use Scribus in order to edit a novel of 20 chapters, > importing the files from Microsoft Word via OpenOffice in order to preserve > the > formatting. There seems to be little information on the web about this type > of > project, so it would be good to hear from subscribers who have already done > this > for a novel or short story collection, so that I can profit from their > experience and perhaps eventually put together a step-by-step process which > will > help other writers and save time and frustration with regard to font > choices, > kerning, etc. > > > Thanks in anticipation, > Scottie > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110105/e16f14ab/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110108/07e2040e/attachment.htm>
