Axel Hollmann Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Hi, probably my question is very stupid, but I'm really new to DTP. I want to format a novel. i watched the tutorial and know how to let text flow from one page to another. But how do I do that, if I have a 300 pages document. Do I have to do it manually from page to page? I experimented with masterpage, but I found no sollution to my problem. Thanks, Axel :-) Philippe Roy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Create the first page as you want it to be, then shift-double click the link arrow in text frame. Needed amount of pages are created and text flown to text frames copied from the first page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Hollmann Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Thank you and have a nice day, Fixx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neolino666 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 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 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 5 hours ago, Neolino666 said: So I have to do the shift+double-click-thingy in the master pages or in the 'normal' pages? Normal, no need to touch masters. Hyphenation in foreign languages seem to be a hack right now, but it should be coming... at least before commercial release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Held Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 7 hours ago, Neolino666 said: 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. When you edit your text style, there's an option to set the language. I'd love to have a document-wide setting, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe Roy Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I need to make novels to. Until Publisher get reflowable pages with a master text frame, it will be impracticable. I cannot even really test the software for long texts right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neolino666 Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 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'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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