On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Joe Apuzzo wrote: > Yes Ed I too have used FrameMaker ( What all AIX related books are > written upon ) and with the right template one can bang out a book in a > matter of months. But I really hate corporate style books. > > I should elaborate some more on what I want to do. Looking at this > "book" for a lack of another word is more like an OSS project as it will > be built chapter by chapter and accessible via a repository of some > sort. It's very technical ( go figure ) and needs lot's of images with > the text flowing around it. For printed copies one would need to pay a > printing fee. > > So like any OSS project how to keep it accessible without adding > complexity of LaTeX? I agree that is the best formatting tool but is > there a compromise? A Wiki come to think of it would be cool since > people could access the content and improve it making corrections etc. > I do agree with Sean's point some time ago, we don't need to harvest > trees to learn... that is why I would like an online version, offline > version ( like PDF ) and for the small subset a printed option. > > Any further ideas? >
Depends on the publisher - the one I deal with usually always deals with the content in doc format, and then they do their voodoo to assemble all the chapter docs into a full book. For versioning in something like SVN, latex is going to be your friend. There are some front ends to make it easier, but I never really got into them. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "According to a study released Tuesday by the National Institute of Emotional Studies, laughter, long employed as a cathartic response to absurd or humorous stimuli, is now used solely to conceal contempt and fear from fellow human beings." -- The Onion
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