[imc-scotland-discussion] Reminder about upcoming Indymedia Scotland meeting, 7.30pm, 25th November at the Electron Club

[Tom]

Ben wrote:
> Next Glasgow meeting, 7.30pm, 25th November at the Electron Club
> 
> Note I spoke to Jon and Tom recently and the future of Edinburgh meetings is
> looking uncertain,

Yes.

> A new newssheet is still in production, as there were deemed to be too
> little articles to get it do one at the beginning of the month,
> 
> This email is also a reminder to Tom or Jon forward a template onwards for
> working on a newssheet in Glasgow,

http://tom.noflag.org.uk/misc/2008%2010.sla

To open this you need scribus version 1.3.5: http://www.scribus.net/

If you are using windows then this is the version you want:
http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/152

Scribus is being actively developed and it does crash now and again, so
save often. One day it will be a fine program but at the moment it is an
infuriating piece of crap. It does the job though.

You will see in the template (actually it is the full october issue --
just delete all the stuff under the banner) that we have defined a bunch
of styles: styles for headlines, article first paragraphs, article
bodies, image captions, etc etc. If you use styles rather than picking a
style manually for each bit of text then your publication will have a
more homogeneous appearance, and people will be very slightly less
inclined to immediately discard it as lefty crap.

We mostly tried to copy newspaper appearance, which is why despite being
only A4 it has 4 columns.

have fun,

-- 
Tom