On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > There are other FOSS options for this, you know. If you don't mind > migrating from a markup language to a GUI, you might consider Scribus. I've > had good luck with it on small projects, and I know that there are > professionals out there using it for magazines and books.
I've been doing this a long time now, and I'm well aware of the alternatives. Framemaker would have been my first choice, but that ceased to exist long ago. Scribus was my first port of call in the FOSS world, being the closest I could get to that. Maybe it's improved recently, but when I looked at it a few years ago, it was *terrible*. Slow, *very* buggy and not well suited to my workflow. I tried various other options and ended up with ConTeXt, which I'm generally pretty happy with. Except that it doesn't work on F17. At all. And yes, I do mind migrating. For new projects, it's not so bad. But for already published books, if I want to do a second printing, I want to correct a few typos, run make and have a fully typeset PDF that I can send off the the printers. I can't currently do that, and retypesetting the whole thing in an alternative tool simply isn't a viable option. Tet -- "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
