On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 12:29 -0800, Tim Wescott wrote:
> Well, the voices in my head have been getting steadily louder for months
> now, and I'm finally making out distinct statements from all the mumbling:
> "time to write another book".  I know from experience that they'll settle
> down without chemical help if I actually get the book written, so I guess
> I'm committed (or perhaps I will be).
> 
> Anyone who's written a long work in OpenOffice and Word know that they
> both suck.  

When I write for publishers, it's historically been a struggle to even
make them accept OpenOffice.org documents. Since OOo 2.x, .doc files
written from OOo Writer have been (almost) seamless with most publisher
templates. 

But there have been a few hiccups with some specialty styles required by
some publishers. 

With the advent of OOo 3.x, previous visual issues with embedded notes
have been solved. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm hopeful ODF will work
with publisher templates written in Word. 

I've never written for SV, so O'Reilly is the only publisher I know of
who accepts LaTeX. I'd guess O'Reilly allied publishers (e.g. No Starch)
may also accept LaTeX.

Thanks,
Mike

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