On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 10:32:20 -0500 stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm willing to bet you won't find such an example. The reason is > simple: more or less by definition a best-seller is book produced by > a major commercial publishing house supported by a consistent > marketing effort, heavily edited by a professional editor and laid > out by a (team of ) typesetters according to a carefully designed > house-specific graphic design project. While that is the traditional definition of a best seller, it is becoming less and less relevant. I use LyX rather than Word (or its clones) because it allows me to produce a presentable document in about half the time it takes with Word. This is emphatically the case if it is a document requiring a detailed table of contents, an index, or a bibliography, or if it contains figures, cross-references or footnotes. A further advantage of LyX that I have only come to appreciate in the last year or two is that even without a specific converter LyX makes the production of an ebook in EPUB format far easier than using a conventional word processor. Preparing a document in Word for the conversion is so "simple" that Smashwords has produced a 24,000 word book on how to do it: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52 Les
