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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?
From:       Michael Joyner á <mjoyner () vbservices ! net>
Date:       2009-07-13 10:51:52
Message-ID: 4A5B11C8.3020408 () vbservices ! net
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Luca De Marini wrote:
> Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
> in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
> LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
> 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 love
> Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
> 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 at
> 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 point
> of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
> 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 section
> 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, etc.
>   
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 citation, a
> small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
> 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) and
> I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx 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 and
> GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
> inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
> 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 more
> 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 this
> for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
> and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
> and win! :)
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Luca D.M.
>
> http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
> http://www.opengeu.com
>
>   


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Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/



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