Book formatting: Indesign, Scribus etc.
Not really a Zotero question, but: how do you get your long, full of research and references, documents formatted for print?
I found some questions about importing documents with Zotero footnotes to Indesign, but they were from 2013 and older...
What I have now is a 75 page long document with 54 footnotes, bibliography handled by Zotero and automated table of contents, written in Libre Office. I found a printing shop which can do the imposition for me, so I can add some fancy handmade bookbinding (this is my thing).
But what if I want to make little changes - line height or some detailed formatting which can only be done in Indesign (or this is what I'm being told)? I cannot think of manually handling the table of contents, footnotes and bibliography now...
I would also try to do this in Scribus but I think it's more for magazine style publications.
My question is: how should it be done? Assuming that these little changes cannot be made in Libre Office, which I doubt.
Also, I believe that the document is generally ready for being printed *now*; all the proofreading and this kind of important (in my opinion...) stuff is already done.
I found some questions about importing documents with Zotero footnotes to Indesign, but they were from 2013 and older...
What I have now is a 75 page long document with 54 footnotes, bibliography handled by Zotero and automated table of contents, written in Libre Office. I found a printing shop which can do the imposition for me, so I can add some fancy handmade bookbinding (this is my thing).
But what if I want to make little changes - line height or some detailed formatting which can only be done in Indesign (or this is what I'm being told)? I cannot think of manually handling the table of contents, footnotes and bibliography now...
I would also try to do this in Scribus but I think it's more for magazine style publications.
My question is: how should it be done? Assuming that these little changes cannot be made in Libre Office, which I doubt.
Also, I believe that the document is generally ready for being printed *now*; all the proofreading and this kind of important (in my opinion...) stuff is already done.
Scribus can import from a number of source formats including LibreOffice *.odt.
Scribus also has useful scripting capability to generate Scribus *.sla files.
But there is a learning curve.
I have been exploring importing from markdown into Scribus and this example paper I found recently in searching how to parse *.odt files has embedded Zotero citations and is parsed using Pandoc.
Example: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4165