1. SapereAude

    SapereAude Contributor Contributor

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    Speaking of Apple Pages ...

    Discussion in 'Writing Software and Hardware' started by SapereAude, May 14, 2021.

    I need some information about word processing on the Mac. Specifically, in the Apple Pages word processing program.

    In setting up a new document as a book, with a two-page layout and mirrored margins -- is there a separate setting for the gutter width, or is the gutter just rolled in with calculating the inside margin width?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Amontillado

    Amontillado Senior Member

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    As far as I see, gutters are sort of a consequence of margins. I'm not a Pages user even though my interest peaked up a little recently.

    I'm grumpy about styles support. I can't find a way to swap to a different style library in Pages, and styles aren't hierarchical.

    If you turn off the document body feature, Pages runs as a desktop publishing tool and I believe it does a pretty good job for at least lightweight publishing.

    Pages makes nice ebooks.

    My "publishing" at present is limited to making PDF's look snappier than average. Draft output from a word processor is fine, and polished output from Affinity Publisher is pretty easy.
     

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