[Gllug] Typesetting a book under Linux

[- Tethys]

What are the options? It's a text book, with a lot of full colour
images, some requiring full bleed. Image positioning is variable, and
text needs to flow around the images.

My instinctive feeling is that Scribus is the right answer, but after
fighting with it for some time, I've basically given up. It's simply
not ready yet, and has too many bugs to be usable. What else is there?
LaTeX, obviously, but while I've successfully used it for other works
of a similar length, I suspect it's really not the right tool for the
job here, and I'd think that getting the image positioning right is
going to be too painful. I thought that LyX might be able to ease the
pain, but having played with it for a bit, it doesn't seem to.
Inkscape does the layout just fine, but isn't really designed for
multi-page documents, and with the best will in the world, it's text
formatting abilities leave something to be desired.

So are there any others options I've missed? Are any of the Windows
apps sufficiently well supported under Wine to be viable? I'd prefer a
free software solution, but will settle for something that allows me
to get it finished before the deadline...

Tet

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wrong tool for every job. -- Bruce Eckel
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