On Saturday 29 May 2010 18:42:57 Tim Wescott wrote: > On 05/29/2010 05:40 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > > Success! > > > > I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian > > manual on how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset > > entirely in Lyx and includes text, tables, photos, external files and > > even music scores. Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I > > am one happy bear. > > > > But I have to say that I'd never have got there without the help and > > active support which I have received over the last year from this > > list, every time I ran into something I couldn't do- which was often! > > > > > > So- a very big and heartfelt THANKS to everyone! You are the tops. > > Congratulations! And good choice of authoring tools! > > My first book-length work was my master's thesis, which I did on Emacs > in LaTeX, because my thesis advisor insisted -- thank you Dr. Enge, for > turning me on to LaTeX! My second was a manual for internal use at the > company I was working at, describing the inner workings of a fairly > complex system. It was done in Microsoft Word, and really bogged down > as it got big splitting it into chapters helped, but it was still way > clunky. My third one was a book > (http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html) authored in OpenOffice > -- OpenOffice is nice for memos, but like Microsoft Office it really > bogs down after 100 pages or so, and slows down by at least n^2 per > size. I had floated the notion of doing it in LaTeX, but > Elsevier/Newnes couldn't conceive of the idea of a book in anything but > Microsoft (this was in spite of being a division of Elsevier -- > apparently Newnes is, or was, fairly independent of the "academic > Elsevier") -- I cheated and did it in OOo, exported to Microsoft, which > generated some problems in production. > > My second book will be presented to a publisher as a LaTeX manuscript > and they can damn well take it or leave it, even if I have to hunt down > a production house for them myself. I do _not_ want to ever go back to > doing it on a 'normal' office word processor!
Hi Richard, I join with Tim congratulating you on completing and publishing a book, and doing it in LyX, which I consider the best book-writing software in the world. I've been off the LyX-Users list for a month and didn't even know it, but I'm back now. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
