Re: [libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout

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On 13/05/2011 08:36, Tom Davies wrote:

> Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing  programs such as Scribus?

How much time have you spent looking at the manuscript requirements that
publishers and printers have?

For math, and related fields, the standard format is TeX.

For virtually everything else, you are looking at either an MS Word
Document, or a PDF produced by Adobe.

FLOSS solutions have a really poor reputation in the publishing world.
The few outfits that accept them, do so with extreme reluctance.

The real irony is that when FLOSS solutions are correctly used, and can
be correctly exported to the file format that the printer or publisher
requires, the results are usually better than when the tool chain
suggested/required by the printer or publisher is used.

Jean wrote:

> for what he wants, LibreOffice can do a fine job.

The requirements, as described by the OP, are trivial to meet using
LibO.  However, are the requirements described by the OP identical to
the specifications laid out by the publisher, or printer?

jonathon
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