On 4/20/13 8:09 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm going to go the self-publishing route. Right now, I'm going to
focus on ebooks, although converting it to print would be fun later on.
If you want to do a professional rendering I encourage you to use LaTeX.
It has all the tools needed to create a book ready to be published, and
you can tweak the options to have different sizes/look depending on
the target device/print.
One anecdote: I used LaTex for one of the book I wrote and it ended up
being edited at an editor's. They were able to send it as-is to the
printer !
But.. he came back to me all panicked the day after because the pdf did
not have the cutting crosses the printer asks (called 'mire' in french) for
cutting the pages. All it took me was to add one line to include a
LaTex plugin that adds them, and render the PDF again.
This would have been impossible with another format like word or reST.
OTHO LaTex is painful to edit/read compared to reST. IIRC Lennart
Regebro (who I added in CC) did his Python 3 porting book entirely in Rest
so he might have an interesting PoV
Cheers
Tarek
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Tarek Ziadé · http://ziade.org · @tarek_ziade
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