Actually, I wrote that full 1.56 MB .rtf file I mentioned as a Text file in emacs. I saved it as .rtf in OO.org Writer to print it out on a laser printer. At 130, 900 approx words, I guess emacs is a pretty powerful word processor.
Wesley Parish Quoting Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:52, Derek Smithies wrote: > >>For writing books, (La)TeX is the way to go. > >>You get a book that has professional, production ready fonts. > >> > > If you want your document to be transformed into multiple formats then > I > > suggest Docbook XML. The "xmlto" package will transform the Docbook > XML > > Actually, I write for publication occasionally, and the best format for > > me is a plain text file, with no machine-readable markup. > > This might be a feature of the publishers workflow, which is to use a > copy/paste operation into Adobe InDesign that handles only text, and no > > attributes. I embed instructions to the editor-as-a-human occasionally, > > and they usually get honoured. > > This isn't the technical environment, but the business one. It's cheaper > > to employ someone to copy/paste than it is to work out the "right" way > to do something. I envy academia sometimes. > > -jim > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
