On 03/02/2014 04:40 PM, Michael Coughlin wrote: > Steffan: > > > Thanks so much. I have much to learn from all of you. > > It's good to simply dive in just to get to know the various tools in Scribus. Make use of the online manual for instructions.
Sooner or later, you have to decide some very basic things like page size, what sort of layout the text will have (more than one column or not, what sort of margins it will have), something about the size and type of font you are going to use. You should typically be talking about a double-sided layout of pages, of course. You can play with these with a fragment of your book. Once you get settled on these basics, then you can construct a layout of the right size with automatic text frames. This way, when you add pages, they will already have your frames in place, ready to import the text and automatically be linked. You should make some Paragraph/Character Styles to work with, realizing you can tweak these later. The Master Pages are typically essential, yet probably not one of the basic things to worry about too much at the beginning. Greg
