compare to Latex

[letsrob]

Hi,

I try to translate a LaTeX project into Affinity publisher (only 29 pages, a lot of pictures). Not really easy:

- missing references like "show on chapter 1 at page 4"

- missing possibility to label some element (chapter, sub chapter) 

- no possibility to set capture and label pictures, 

- only a workaround for parts (like part 1 - contains some closed chapters) 

- missing possibility to define print structure: front page, empty page (ore copyright), parts

- missing typesetter specials

I will check the workaround for references from Mr. walt. Sounds good.

[fde101]

Hi @letsrob, welcome to the forums!

LaTeX by its nature is a rather different tool from a desktop publishing application and it should not be expected that you will see feature parity between them.  The closest you are likely to get to defining "print structure" in Affinity Publisher is probably to use the Section Manager (in the Document menu) to define groups of related pages, for example.

"Labeling" parts, chapters, subchapters and the like would be handled using text styles.  You can use the "Next Level" property of the text styles to establish the containment order (next level of a part is a chapter, next level of a chapter is a sub-chapter, etc.) and they will appear in the correct order in a table of contents (for example) for which those styles are selected to be included.

Cross-references are definitely something that should be added at some point, as has been previously discussed.

 

I'm not completely sure what you mean by "typesetter specials" but have you checked the Typography section of the Character panel as well as the Glyph Browser panel?  If those don't cover what you are looking for then perhaps you could clarify what you mean by this?