On Jan 11, 9:23 pm, Paul Howson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 12, 6:16 am, Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, Paul. How about setting up a system for us? ; -) > > > Yes, Tom mentioned that The Pragmatic Bookshelf uses their own code > > base on top TEX. > > > I hear about 40,000 lines of code total for the site. : -) > > In that case they're obviously not using Hobo! :
Hi Owen, I was the one who suggested using Lyx for this project. Lyx is a frontend processor to LaTex, et al, which let's you write your document while it takes care of the formatting. It's has a long pedigree, works on Linux, Mac, Win platforms, and is highly stable, with an active developers base. See website and wikepedia page: www.lyx.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX Also check out some of these article links I got off its website: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/lyx-made-easy http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.php I think this is the all around best choice for this type of rapid (pun intended) project. Lyx comes with its own version control system, or can use an external one, imports and export to Latex, PDF, etc, and produces output that you can absolutely control and see what it looks like before going to print. Oh, and it's all open source software and FREE! Besides the initial learning curve, there are very few reasons for not using Lyx as a long term platform for producing any of the documents the Hobo project will/should produce over its lifetime. My 2 cents. Jabari
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