[Techtalk] openoffice and scribus

[Chantal Rosmuller]

Hi Ricardo, 

That is a good solution, nice and simple 
We are experimenting with a wiki at the moment, writers and translaters work 
in the wiki and layout is done in Scribus. same idea because wiki is also 
plain text :).

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 18:37:54 Ricardo Dalceno wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I was working at Linux Magazine, we used to ask our contributors to
> send us the articles in plain-text format.
> We asked them to put some tags into the text, so we can use it to diagram
> and edit the text in a more efficiently way. We created a set of tags and
> published this in our web-site.
>
> We were using OOo to edit the text and then the text went to a MacOS X +
> InDesign to be designed. InDesign has a way to use and recognize XML tags
> so, the work of designing the magazine was not so hard.
>
> I dont know if Scribus already has the same feature, but you can use the
> same approach...
>
> I hope I could be more helpful.