Hi Nick, Nick Warne schrieb: > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:46, Christian Mayer wrote: >> The quality of the text looks quite bad to me, it's about amateur >> writing level, I guess. The layout was done with OpenOffice which also >> fits in this picture. > > What on earth do you mean that statement?
I tried to express that the book looks to me like the work of an amateur who tries to make some fast money by writing about an subject he doesn't know much more than the audience he targets. By using OpenOffice as the typesetting system he shows that there isn't an institution (e.g. the publisher) behind him that takes care of the little things that are the difference between an amateur work and an professional work (e.g. an editor, professional layout, perfect typesetting...) CU, Christian PS: OpenOffice is an great office suite - but it isn't a good publishing tool. For writing letters it's perfect, but the requirements for writing a book are quite different though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
