[scribus] Printing an SLA without using X11

Jon jonforthewin at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 02:33:39 CEST 2008


> As it happens kpdf will update itself when the underlying file is 
> changed

That is pretty cool, I'll definitely try that.


On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 17:05 -0400, John Culleton wrote:

> On Friday 10 October 2008 04:35:48 pm Jan Schrewe wrote:
> > Jon schrieb am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2008:
> > > If I could find a decent open source wysiwig editor for that
> > > format (or if OpenOffice Writer exported it properly) we'd be
> > > using it right now.
> >
> > There is none. Lyx comes as close as possible to wysiwig, but it is
> > usually written as code and then compiled.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> >
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> I am missing something here. Lyx produces and compiles LaTeX code not 
> sla. There are other specialized LaTeX editors, such as Kile.
> 
> On Slackware I open a command line window and from there I open two 
> other Windows, a Gvim editor session and a Kpdf session. I have Gvim 
> trained to execute some F keys:
> F2 rearrange the text in gvim and justify ragged right.
> F3 execute pdftex book.tex
> F4 execute texexec book.tex    (Context call)
> F5 execute kpdf book.pdf
> 
> As it happens kpdf will update itself when the underlying file is 
> changed, yet retain the same page location in the file.  So that is 
> my wysiwyg window. 
> 
> I use Scribus just for covers. For documents I use TeX as indicated 
> above.  Scribus is just too awkward for long documents. Things are 
> getting better, but IMO they aren´t there yet.   And for me LaTeX is 
> too verbose and confining. There are horses for courses. 
> 
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