Asif, Oh yeah, I researched it a bit too. Pay $5k or such to a small press. Or cross your fingers and try to work with a big press. The big techie presses want a tunneled, niche book. No general books allowed. Guess it helps them sell more books. And why I quit buying O'Reilly (doesn't help to buy an HTML book when no mention of Javascript is made for instance. Get real HTML without Javascript is non-existent for large projects. Even those that claim they'll have "no client side scripting" always do sooner or later.)
TimJowers http://www.serviza.com/ : Serviza Monster Computers. Scribus Pre-installed! Power on and WRITE! On 10/30/06, John R. Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 16:27, Asif Lodhi wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > On 10/31/06, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > > Now you've made us very curious as to what the book will be about... :-) > > > Any hint? > > > > > :) There are many subjects to choose from and many strategies as well. > > > > Certainly, it should provide some genuine value that none of the > > existing books of the same category provide and at a reasonable cost - > > if I want it to be sold, that is. Initially, I aimed to write one on > > Maths or Chemistry but then I have seen so many good ones on these > > subjects that I have dropped the idea altogether. It's going to be on > > an IT subject area and will be aimed at complete beginners - well, > > there are many books on the subject but I have my own niche. I'll > > write it in my free-time so it's going to take some time to write the > > whole book. > > > > I was really scared of TeX but I have only read the first 16 pages of > > "The TeX Book" and it has become one of my favorites. Dr. Knuth has > > explained everything in a very easy style and every layman can read > > this book. I recommend it to everybody. I have used LyX/Latex but > > would rather go for TeX - it's really easy - at least, that's what I > > feel after reading Dr. Knuth's book a bit. > > > > -- > > Thanks & regards, > > > > Asif > > _______________________________________________ > > Scribus mailing list > > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > The family tree ot TeX is a bit complcated. There is a base of primitive > commands that are not intended to be used by themselves. When you use the > command "tex" what you get is these primitive plus a "format" or set of > cmmands built on primitives that is called plain tex. LaTeX is another such > format and by far the most popular one. Other formats include Context, which > is what I use for anything very complicated. It is an alternative to Latex. > > Lyx is a graphic front end to LaTeX. It generates LaTeX source code. > > Knuth's book describes the primitives and the plain tex commands. For an old > but good quick inroduction see "A Gentle Introduction to TeX" which also > describes plain tex. I have it stored here: > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/gentle.pdf > -- > John Culleton > Able Indexing and Typesetting > Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. > Satisfaction guaranteed. > http://wexfordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
