[scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter

[Joe Ward]

Thanks for all the kind answers to my fumbling attempts to use the features 
of Scribus. I'm sorry I've been slow to respond. I live in Louisville KY, 
where the north edge of Hurricane Ike came through last Sunday and put about 
300,000 of us out of power for a few days. It also dumped some big limbs in 
our yards, for us to clean up. Got me off task there for a few days.

I think I'm as confused as ever. Please see responses below to suggestions 
made.

From: "Peter Nermander" <peter at nermander.se>
>
> A template is a template document. You would get the same function if you
> saved a scribus document and then made a new copy of it.

       So why does anybody make templates? What are they for?

>
>> Then I go to the Page menu, and click on "convert to master page," give 
>> it
>> a
>> name, and click okay. Then I click on the edit menu and go to Master
>
> Let me first ask you why do you want to convert the page to a Master Page?
> Master Pages are like a page background. Appying a Master Page to a page
> is like changing the background for that page.

      I thought I needed to make master pages in order to put the document 
together so it would automatically number the pages in a correct sequence. I 
was hoping master pages would help me with imposition. So I'm left with the 
question: How do I set up pages so that the front page of my newsletter will 
be on the right side of a double page, and the last page will be on the left 
side -- with page 2 and the second-from-last page on the other side of the 
same sheet?

>
> If you want pages with frames etc to use as templates for new pages,
> Scribus does not currently support that in a good way. The best way is
> probably to make a document with template pages and then import a page
> from that document when you want to use a specific template.
>
> Also note that the Master Page is save in the document. If you open or
> start a new document, it will have it's own Master Pages.

       This sounds like useful information, but I don't know what it means. 
What ARE master pages, and how do they work?

       Thanks again. I'm sorry to be/seem obtuse.

                                                                             
     -Joe