[Actionchix] Brainstorm: Creating woman-friendly Linux on-line mag

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 16:39:59 UTC 2007


I don't know how to use it.  I've just seem it recommended elsewhere
before.  I figured it might be easier for most people than TeX, but then
there's LyX for a point-n-click TeX.

On 8/22/07, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com> wrote:
>
> Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > I just want to take a second to point out Scribus.  It's a FOSS Desktop
> > Publishing program, so it should have all the stuff for getting things
> > nicely laid out if there are to be PDFs available.
> >
>
> Yeah, I've used Scribus. It is good enough for most things but in my
> experience, for a publishing suite it handles line-height in text really
> really really badly, which is a terrible shame. Basically, if your text
> is anything less than 12pt, it has huge gaps between lines, and if your
> text is anything more than 12pt, the gaps between lines diminishes until
> the text is stacked up on top of itself.
>
> However, if you know how to fix this, please let me know. I'd love to be
> able to use it more often.
>
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> Sincerely
> Melissa Draper
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