Book layout

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi
I tried passepartout about a month ago and it just din't have the 
functionality I needed. I'll look at glabels ...

Thanks,
Søren

Jan Morén wrote:
> Maybe passepartout could work?
> 
> http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
> 
> 
> And I believe at least some people (ab)use glabels as a quick-and-dirty
> layouter as well.
> 
> 
> fre 2004-12-24 klockan 00:51 +0100 skrev 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:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>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).
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>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
>>
>>[snip]
>>