Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing

[Alan L Tyree]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:58 +1100
Heracles  wrote:

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> Hi All,
> I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for
> a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who
> gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have
> to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24
> pages for which the format is fairly fixed.
> 
> Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index
> (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is
> basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing
> monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set
> up as 2 columns with a footer but no header.


I should have added a few more notes about LyX.

First, you can get a better preview of "The Restless Minestrone" here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=w0hUXHizmaAC&dq=tyree+restless+minestrone&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Pe8Cn4xBv6&sig=Mhnh1GqzsKDyUa_duZKO3kAupDw&hl=en&ei=FadOS9_3N5SXkQW41cSwCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

(If that doesn't come through, just Google "tyree restless minestrone")

Second, I used Memoir class to make the book. Lots of the
lists/graphics are in "boxes" which are just LaTeX minipages.

Third, I enjoyed the experience with LyX so much that I wrote short
(100 pages) book "Self-publishing with LyX" which is available as a
free PDF download from Lulu.com:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/self-publishing-with-lyx/1502465

The Self-publishing book is based on an earlier version of LyX, but the
details haven't changed much. LyX itself has some of the best open
source documentation that I have seen.

HTH,
Alan

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Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing

[Alan L Tyree]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:59:58 +1100
Heracles  wrote:

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> Hi All,
> I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for
> a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who
> gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have
> to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24
> pages for which the format is fairly fixed.
> 
> Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index
> (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is
> basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing
> monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set
> up as 2 columns with a footer but no header.
> 


Scribus has been mentioned already and it is very good and easy to work
with. 

However, from the sound of your publication, I think I would use LyX.
You have very few graphics and the rest of it sounds like it would fit
easily into the LyX format.

I self-published a cookbook that my wife wrote and it had quite a bit
of graphics - went like a charm with LyX.

You can see some of the pages at
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/the-restless-minestrone/728996#

I used Scribus to do the front and back cover.

If your newsletter is no more complicated than this, then go with LyX.

HTH,
Alan


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Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing

[Dean Hamstead]

I can vouch for scribus, its quite good and very actively developed.

Dean

Rodolfo Martínez wrote:

Hi Heracles,

Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than
OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable,
and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other
platforms).

Have a nice day.

Rodolfo Martínez
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles  wrote:

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Hi All,
I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a
computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me
a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate
the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which
the format is fairly fixed.

Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index
(which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is
basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly.
Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2
columns with a footer but no header.

I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and
created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was
wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the
whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in
the new body text each month.

Any recommendation would be appreciated.

Heracles

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Re: [SLUG] Desktop publishing

[Rodolfo Martínez]

Hi Heracles,

Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than
OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable,
and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other
platforms).

Have a nice day.

Rodolfo Martínez
Dirección de Proyectos | www.aleux.com | MSN: rodolfo.marti...@aleux.com



On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles  wrote:
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> Hi All,
> I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a
> computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me
> a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate
> the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which
> the format is fairly fixed.
>
> Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index
> (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is
> basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly.
> Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2
> columns with a footer but no header.
>
> I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and
> created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was
> wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the
> whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in
> the new body text each month.
>
> Any recommendation would be appreciated.
>
> Heracles
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[SLUG] Desktop publishing

[Heracles]

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Hi All,
I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a
computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me
a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate
the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which
the format is fairly fixed.

Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index
(which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is
basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly.
Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2
columns with a footer but no header.

I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and
created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was
wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the
whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in
the new body text each month.

Any recommendation would be appreciated.

Heracles

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[SLUG] [Fwd: [Advocate Play Ogg] TinyOgg liberates Flash videos!]

[Marghanita da Cruz]

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FSF volunteer and GNU Generation member Osama Khalid just launched a great
tool: TinyOgg. TinyOgg takes in a link to a Flash video (boo!) and spits
out a link to an Ogg video (hooray!).

* 

It only works with videos you have posted to YouTube for now, but his
intention is to support a long list of sites.

Please help us spread the word by sharing via your favorite site!

We recommend these services, because they follow ethical guidelines and
respect their users:

Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/aou06/tinyogg_liberates_online_flash_video/

Identica:
http://identi.ca/notice/18849217

Other sites are set up to lock users to their services and deny them basic
privacy and autonomy. While it's important that we communicate with
computer users everywhere, even on services we don't agree with, please
don't let sharing important news about Ogg lead to further use:

Digg:
http://digg.com/software/TinyOgg_project_liberates_Flash_video

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Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

[david]

Amos Shapira wrote:

Upon re-reading the question, I just realised that you create the file
hourly from cron. You can then either follow Steffens' advise or run
"savelog" or your own mv (since Savelog is limited in its file naming
options) at the end of the cron job.

On 1/13/10, Steffen Schulz  wrote:

On 100112 at 16:09, david wrote:

Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for example by
moving the logrotate cron to hourly instead of daily? This is a file
created hourly by cron for which I want to keep a history.


Maybe you rather want to include the date in the file name, so it is
not overwritten. E.g., for an arbitrary cronjob named foobar:

foobar > /var/log/foobar.log.$(date +%w) 2>&1

This will keep the 6 last files. You get the idea.


logrotate looks like a good way to do it. I'm assuming there is no
"hourly" option in logrotate, so I was going to force it to rotate
by specifying a very small file size.

If you do the above, logrotate should ignore the file.




Ultimately I realised I was being too complicated.

I added the following line to the cron job that creates the file. Each file is uniquely named with a 
date stamp as part of the cron script. This line should keep one week's worth of files.


find $DIRECTORY/ -name "*.tar" -type f -mmin +10080 -delete

thanks everyone...

David.
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Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

[Amos Shapira]

Upon re-reading the question, I just realised that you create the file
hourly from cron. You can then either follow Steffens' advise or run
"savelog" or your own mv (since Savelog is limited in its file naming
options) at the end of the cron job.

On 1/13/10, Steffen Schulz  wrote:
> On 100112 at 16:09, david wrote:
>> Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for example by
>> moving the logrotate cron to hourly instead of daily? This is a file
>> created hourly by cron for which I want to keep a history.
>
>
> Maybe you rather want to include the date in the file name, so it is
> not overwritten. E.g., for an arbitrary cronjob named foobar:
>
> foobar > /var/log/foobar.log.$(date +%w) 2>&1
>
> This will keep the 6 last files. You get the idea.
>
>> logrotate looks like a good way to do it. I'm assuming there is no
>> "hourly" option in logrotate, so I was going to force it to rotate
>> by specifying a very small file size.
>
> If you do the above, logrotate should ignore the file.
>
>
> /steffen
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Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

[Steffen Schulz]

On 100112 at 16:09, david wrote:
> Is there a good reason NOT to rotate logs hourly.. for example by
> moving the logrotate cron to hourly instead of daily? This is a file
> created hourly by cron for which I want to keep a history.


Maybe you rather want to include the date in the file name, so it is
not overwritten. E.g., for an arbitrary cronjob named foobar:

foobar > /var/log/foobar.log.$(date +%w) 2>&1

This will keep the 6 last files. You get the idea.

> logrotate looks like a good way to do it. I'm assuming there is no
> "hourly" option in logrotate, so I was going to force it to rotate
> by specifying a very small file size.

If you do the above, logrotate should ignore the file.


/steffen
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[SLUG] International LCA speaker in Sydney for dinner Friday night

[Mary Gardiner]

Hi all,

Mark Smith, one of the founders of the dreamwidth.org project, who is
giving a talk with co-founder Denise Paolucci at LCA[1], is in Sydney on
Friday night and looking to meet up, just in case anyone's interested.

He's got details at http://mark.dreamwidth.org/18446.html

-Mary

[1] http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/schedule/view_talk/50329
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