[scribus] book elements

DeAnna Knippling dknippling at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 14:26:31 UTC 2011


Adrienne, I am a small-press publisher who does ebooks.  Email me
off-list at dknipppling at gmail.com, and I can help you get started -
but I wouldn't use Scribus.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:18 AM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> hi adrienne,
>
>> I'm preparing a several chapter book for epub. It will have a table
>> of contents with hyperlinks to the chapters and the usual front
>> matter, etc.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it is best to create it all as one file, or to do
>> separate files for each element/chapter and then somehow consolidate
>> those to a book.
>
> i don't think that scribus is currently the best tool to create ebooks...
>
> ... but it depends a bit on what you mean by "epub"...
>
>
> and -- depending on the length of your work -- putting each chapter in its own file may be a very good idea.
>
> finally, for a "normal" book, you'd probably better manually create your table of contents...
>
> we hope to have a better solution for all those problem very soon (except for the fact that you should not put too much content in a file...)
>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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