[scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter

[Joe Ward]

> Frank is spot on here, Joe.
> You can easily totally forget about templates and Master Pages, and just 
> create your first newsletter. If later you want to create a template from 
> your newsletter, or create one or more Master Pages from your newsletter, 
> fine, but it seems you need to know much more about how to use all the 
> other elements of Scribus than worry about templates and master pages.
>
> Greg
>


Louis, Peter, Jan, Greg, Frank and Mike,

               It's really heartening to have help from patient people. I am 
slowly finding that I can put this thing together. My problem has not been 
conceptual, but little things. I wasn't able to import pages, for example, 
because I wasn't inserting a page number in the page import dialog box. Now 
I'm able to add pages to my newsletter document at will, AND to use the 
templates I'd previously made to take advantage of their formatting for 
inside pages. I still haven't figured out how to make more than one master 
page, but I'm confident that I will, and that by then I'll understand why I 
want to.
             Anyway, I think I'm on my way with this copy of the newsletter, 
and will learn enough to be at least dangerous as I put it together.
             I've looked at the impostion software you have put me onto, and 
am mystified by it, as well. It appears to require command line 
instructions, which I'm going to have to figure out. I've been messing with 
computers for 25 years or so, and I once wrote a basic program to fill out 
my expense reimbursement form at work on my old CPM Osborne I.
             I think I'm going to want to use multivalent.
             Thanks. I'm sure you'll be hearing from me again.

                                                                             
    -Joe