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Dear CoffeeRoom,
I am looking for a program, which will enable me to DIY seforim publisher. the program must have Hebrew support, and be a program that will allow me to manipulate the page so I can have different size columns in different parts of the page.
for example, I would like to have the main text with a Pirush on the bottom and then a small column on the right or left side (depending on the page) with comments.
thank you.
are you looking for something that would print it also, or just something that you can format? and then export to print somewhere
because if its just formatting, it may be enough to use something like Microsoft Publisher. (although you would have to find something that flips the order of hte pages, but that shouldnt be too hard)
if you’re looking for something that prints also, I would suggest looking in Israel as that is where you would find decent Hebrew support
Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word is a horrible idea for that. You need desktop publishing software like Microsoft Publish.
First write it, than worry about publication.
Microsoft word is plenty sufficient for this.
If you need material for the sefer contact me.
basicly in publisher it is very easy to make the text boxes where you want them and have the text “flow” from the text on one page to the next if you want to do funky formating with columns or whatever. Word is great if you are doing straightforward, text and footnotes.
both are relativly user friendly and have plenty of tutorials online
what do you mean by the option of making a book? of making it look like a book or of them printing it for you?
or just that you can export it in something printable?
I’m really not sure because the right-to-left langauge thing may give you a bit of trouble
I highly doubt Publisher is what you are looking for. I mean, it does have a right to left option, but besides for that, I don’t think it’s made for professional books. It’s more for basic cards and letters. And I don’t see how you can manipulate text boxes to turn and grow and shrink (like in Gemara, Sulchan Aruch ect.)
I don’t know and it seems like noone on YW ever printed a Sefer [we are all too busy wasting our lives here …]
Try to find someone in your community or BM that published a Sefer and ask him.
Hatzlacha!!
SiDi™
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