yosef >From personal experience - it will depend on the publisher - the most common format is MS Word - none of them require Quark even if they use it internally I hear Prentice Hall are ok with Latex - I believe Lerner used Tex for Core Perl Danny Lieberman www.software.co.il +972-8-970-1485(voice) +972-54-447-1114(Cell)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Yosef Leibovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:17 PM Subject: Writing a mathematical book with OpenSource > Hi, > I wish to write a mathematical book to be published (think Academon > publication for instance, real book should be produced) (sollutions for > questions in Misler's excellent book for Infinistimal Calculus BTW). I > want to use open-source sollution however I think I might have no such > oprions. I thought of the following options: > 1) OpenOffice, > pros: WYSIWYG, easy text styling (one can define h1/2/3 and normal text) > good equation insertion. > cons: Horrible hebrew+english handling (fixing up a f(x) is no > picnic...), no one uses it, so I except no support from publicator > 2) Latex, > pros: very easy styling and macroing (I can define answers and question, > and decide later where to place them with a simple script), nice hebrew > support. > cons: aplying new fonts should be problematic. Many hebrew related bugs > (cutting equations wrongfully) I assume there will be some support for > it but I'm not sure how much. > 3) MS-Word, > pros: Very convinient method for embedding hebrew with English, > extremely excellent support in all aspects (embedding different equation > handler), new versions also do styles very nicely > cons: Equation writing is obnoxious (click on the sign you desire), > non-opensource. > My questions are: > Will anything-other-than MS-Word will be accepted by publications (I've > never written a mathematical book so I've no idea what are they using > (heard of Quark but not sure what it is) > Is there any other method I missed for editing Hebrew mathematical > texts, opensource or not. > What do you think is the best options for me, it seems that, sadly, > MS-Word beats all other participants with one hand tied, > Thanks > Elazar Leibovich > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
