Re: Possibly OT: document composition software

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:50:18 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote:

> An user of mine has a need: she must produce gobs of documents which 
> often comprise the same part of text (usually paragraphs or whole 
> chapters), but differs in some small details or in header/footer.
> 
> That's something I would easily arrange with LaTeX, make and other 
> "developers'" tools, if I had to do that myself; however I need to
> give her some more "user-friendly", non technical-oriented tool.
> 
> Bonus: these documents must be versioned; that's something she does 
> manually now, but if the software would help...
> 
> Something web-based (possibly running on FreeBSD) would probably be 
> fine, but a desktop application would also do (but then it should be 
> able to run on Windows).
> 
> Does such tools exist? How would they be called? (I have no idea what 
> search terms to use).
> Any reccomenendations?

Have you looked at Scribus (print/scribus)?
https://www.scribus.net/ 

HTH,
-- 
 Piotr Smyrak