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I usually place the headers and page numbers 4 lines in from the top and bottom edge of the page. It is edited using the Edit Text option in the Edit toolbar. Page headers are usually the author’s name on the top of the left hand page and the book title on the top of the right hand page.Īll text where in the Master Page or the Document itself needs to be placed in a text box. You can now create text boxes for your page numbers, your page headers and your body of text. In the dialogue box click the left most icon, which will create a new Master Page. It will bring up a blank page with a dialogue box. This is done by clicking on Master Pages under Edit on the toolbar. You need to create the following Master Pages You want all your body text to be right hand aligned. To set hanging paragraph for each paragraph style turn on optical margins right hand only. To get around this I indent all but my hanging paragraphs to 0.085cm. Scribus will do this automatically for the right hand margin, but for some reason it does not work with the left hand margin. Hanging Default Paragraph – Character style: Georgia Pro, 11pt Properties: Align to baseline, Kerning -2pt.Ī quick note on hanging paragraphs – your punctuation at the beginning and end of a line of text should be outside of the text box, as it makes the text sit better on the page. Hanging First Paragraph First Paragraph – Character style: Georgia Pro, 11pt Properties: Align to baseline, Kerning -2pt.
#Scribus master page pro#
Interior Title Page Subheading – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 18pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15ptĬhapter Heading – Character style: Georgia Pro, 16pt Properties: Align to baselineĬhapter Subheading – Character style: Georgia Pro, 14pt Properties: Align to baseline, 20pt space before, 12pt space below.įirst Paragraph – Character style: Georgia Pro, 11pt Properties: Align to baseline, Kerning -2pt. Interior Title Page – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 25pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15pt I use the following:īook Title – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 36pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15ptīook Title Subheading – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 15pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15ptĬopyright text Book Title Subheading – Character style: Arial, 11pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15pt Next you’ll want to create several new paragraph styles. Ideally you want to aim for about 59 characters a line (2.5 alphabets), but you really don’t want to go below 10pt for readability.ĭefault Paragraph – Character style: Georgia Pro, 11pt Properties: Align to baseline, Kerning -2pt. You font size will be dependant upon you line length.
#Scribus master page free#
Though feel free to use your favourite Serif Font. Some fonts seem to run together a little in italic which makes it harder to read. I use Georgia Pro Font as it still reads clearly in Italic without the need to alter the Kerning (space between the letters). Choose the font you want to use for your book. You need to start by editing Character Style. Ideally you baseline grid should be 1.5x your font height. You can change the width of the baseline grid from the File menu. I start by turning on the Baseline Grid under the View menu of the main tool bar. The below is a screen shot for the margin layout for a 6×9 paperback. On start up you get a page set up screen. The next thing you’ll need is Scribus which is a free typesetting program, which can be downloaded here. I search on your publisher’s website should give you a guide to page layout.Īmazon’s book template’s can be found here. Of course that will vary depend on the size of the book you mean to print.
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Here are a few examples from my bookcase: For example the five fantasy books I pulled off of my shelf at random all ignore the advice to avoid widows and orphans (a line of text at the end start or end of a paragraph that ends up all alone at the top of bottom of a page) and will end a line of text with a single letter word after a full stop. To start with I would recommend looking at books in a similar genre to your own writing to create your own typesetting guide.