On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 08:33:39 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 06/09/2012 05:03 AM, Owen wrote: > > > > My personal take on making an ePub book is that I wanted to focus on > the text, and that if one had a viewer that showed the graphics, > that's fine, but otherwise, seeing the various dialogs and whatever > in Scribus itself is probably preferable anyway. > > So this is not going to meet some high standards of publishing or > design or whatever other irritation that it induces in Prokoudine or > others. An advantage it has is that it's easily edited and updated, > and I think it's selling for a fair price. I suspect many readers > will not have a lasting need for this, but it's not being forced on > anyone. > > Greg If a book is laid out in one of the TeX variants it is also easy to update, and the output is a pdf. If you want to create a totally different format with different page dimensions etc. then a few changes at the top of the document will handle it. If you insert a chapter in the middle then the chapter numbers and the TOC automatically update. Indexing is also an easy feature. So long as the handheld devices will read a pdf (and many will) I see no urgency to do things in epub, or mobi, or html. I prefer Scribus for book covers, for newsletters and sales flyers. For everything that is text heavy I save time and errors by doing it in some form of TeX. My e-book listed below was done in pdftex. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black" "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
