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  1. 1 hour ago, Fixx said:

    LaTeX is very special software. If you are happy with it continue using it by all means. MS Word is not fit to produce printed matter.

    At the moment, if aim is to design in Publisher a simple book there is nothing to stop creating a 500 page book. Autoflow will typeset it in no time. Styling the text takes some time, but there is nothing in other competing apps to make it quicker either. Further refinement in tools is needed of course as designs grow more complicated but everything is doable with long documents even now. It just takes some manual work.

    Hey, Fixx, what would be your process for setting up a 500 page long book in Publisher then?

    Just curious :-)

  2. Question: If you take a novel, for example, the front matter has no page numbers on it. The numbering starts usually with the first chapter, that means, that the count may start with the number 5 on that page. Is this already doable in AP?

    Workaround would be, to let the count run from the first page und hide that under a white rectangle until it reaches the first chapter, but it would not be that professional, I guess :-)

  3. An official statement by someone from the team would be much appreciated here! I also would use publisher mainly for creating books for printing (novels in a single pdf), so I would need master pages for setting up the main text and chapter titles, front and back matter etc., linked text frames in master pages etc. Will some of this functionality be implemented in the final version or not? Just wondering.

    Thanks

  4. Okay, I played around a bit today, and a few other questions arose:

    When I set up a master page (facing) for the novels body text, I add a text box to each of the pages and link them. Then I add text and paragraph styles. When I paste my novels text into the 'normal' page, it adds all the needed pages automatically, but the page on the right side looks like there is another text box overlayed (see attached image).

    When I don't do a master page, I paste the text directly into a 'normal' page, it adds the pages as well without the messed up overlay thingy. But I would need to add the styles for every page manually and that sucks.

    Could someone please explain how the process would look like to set up a basic novel? I thought you generate master pages with linked text boxes for the text and the chapter titles, give those styles and paste the text into the 'normal' page, then the needed pages are created automatically and you are basically done. Is that correct or am I missing something here?

    Screenshot 2018-08-31 17.44.26.png

  5. Okay, I played around a bit today, and a few other questions arose:

    When I set up a master page (facing) for the novels body text, I add a text box to each of the pages and link them. Then I add text and paragraph styles. When I paste my novels text into the 'normal' page, it adds all the needed pages automatically, but the page on the right side looks like there is another text box overlayed (see attached image).

    When I don't do a master page, I paste the text directly into a 'normal' page, it adds the pages as well without the messed up overlay thingy. But I would need to add the styles for every page manually and that sucks.

    Could someone please explain how the process would look like to set up a basic novel? I thought you generate master pages with linked text boxes for the text and the chapter titles, give those styles and paste the text into the 'normal' page, then the needed pages are created automatically and you are basically done. Is that correct or am I missing something here?

    Hyphenations work in german, if you set the language in the styles for hyphenations to german and set those to '1'.

    Screenshot 2018-08-31 17.44.26.png

  6. So I have to do the shift+double-click-thingy in the master pages or in the 'normal' pages?

    Another question concerning novels or documents with a lot of text: is there functionality for hyphentation / syllabification for different languages already available? Would need it for german, but I did not find anything so far.

    Thanks

    P.S.: For now the publisher looks great. Will definitely buy it, once it's ready :-)

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