Book layout

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi
First of all, thanks to all the people who suggested scribus (on and off 
the list) - I'm looking into that right now.

Wander Boessenkool wrote:
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> Time to teach your father how to use the Gimp for the retouching
Oh, but he's already doing that. I think I should say that he tried 
photoshop
a while back, but gave up. With gimp I just had to show him how to start 
the program
and he just simply started to learn. I didn't even have to teach him 
(off course he's only doing simple stuff).

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> First off: Scribus would indeed be a good choice, but if your father
> (who I guess is somewhat technical) doesn't mind learning some new
> tricks you might also look in to LaTeX. There are some graphical
> frontends to it, although none spring to mind right now (I edit using
> vi).
I'm a LaTeX man myself (I love saying that to people who don't known 
TeX) but I allways felt that dealing with graphics was a bit of a pain. 
It's great for text (it's the best), but maybe I don't know the right 
packages?

Anyway, my father is not that technical and likes to keep things visual 
(remember he's an architect) so unless better gui's exist than LyX I 
think LaTeX is a bit to hard (allthough he was/is a big fan of 
WordPerfect 5.1, and that's very much the same as LaTeX).

Thanks,
/Søren

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