On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:23 AM, christiaan pauw wrote:
I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project
sponsor
wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about
should be
very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things
like
that.
Tough to do in LaTeX, but doable.
I have approached a publisher that wants to do it in some DTP
program. They
see all my beautiful LateX as an obstacle.
Well, you could just provided them w/ a tagged text dump --- pretty
straightforward search-replace between the two. Ask them for a
compleat example markup using Quark XPress Tags or Adobe Tagged Text
and match that if you want to go that route.
They are going to be very
expensive (for example $3000 for indexing).
Not a bad price for an index, and well-worth it for a professionally
done index. See if you can find an indexer willing to do an embedded
index in your LaTeX files though if you go that route.
Does anyone have experience or
examples of an more popular "eye candy" approach to publishing with
LyX/LaTeX.
Some examples of this sort of thing in the TeX Showcase.
The big thing is that the image files have to be properly processed in
advance, then make the pdf files w/ appropriate pre-press settings
(embed all fonts).
The difficult thing is getting a nice design done --- w/ a good book
design it's just an implementation detail doing the paging in Quark,
InDesign or LaTeX.
William
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
