[Gllug] Typesetting a book under Linux

[Iain Gray]

As a hobby I write RPG stuff and so images and text typesetting is what I need.

I am a huge fan of GIMP and Inkscape for all the graphics work and I
use these for the majority of my work, but sadly I just can't say the
same about Scribus. It is just too buggy and crashy.

So sadly I have to rely on InDesign at great expense which is a shame.

I have always thought that LaTeX ahd just too steep a learning curve
to start on that road, but maybe it is time to have another look.

Any useful pointers on web-based tutorials for LaTex?

iain

2008/11/4 - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li> wrote:
>
>>> Still, if Scribus fails or crashes, maybe this is your chance to fix
>>> it?
>>
>> Sure, if his publishers don't mind extending his deadline while he does so :-)
>
> And that's the problem. If there was enough time, I'd be more than
> happy to wait until Scribus was ready. But in this case, there isn't.
> Plus, of course, Scribus uses Mantis as a bug tracking system, and
> that's so painful to use that the incentive isn't necessarily there to
> even tell them what's wrong.
>
> Tet
>
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