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Luca De Marini wrote:
> Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adven=
ture
> in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not co=
de or
> LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in I=
taly
> and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. =
Now,
> of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I l=
ove
> Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architec=
tural
> studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.=

> An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look a=
t
> white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I=
'm
> going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my p=
oint
> of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not th=
e
> tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with=
 the
> possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
> background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a sect=
ion
> or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of =
one
> kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, e=
tc.
>  =20
There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
little bit of ERT.

> Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citatio=
n, a
> small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fan=
cy
> small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed=
 too,
> but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in =
Gimp
> or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx=

> document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).
>
> Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:
>
> 1) I love Lyx
> 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, veeeeery professional.
> Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this=
 is
> nice to keep focused on the contents.
> 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) a=
nd
> I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Ly=
x is
> in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
> 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools a=
nd
> GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be=

> inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use co=
de,
> you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become =
more
> powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work =
of
> this kind.
>
> Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think=
 this
> is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even m=
ore
> incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you =
think
> this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do th=
is
> for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus ins=
tead
> and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight t=
o try
> and win! :)
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Luca D.M.
>
> http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
> http://www.opengeu.com
>
>  =20


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LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/



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