On Wednesday 09 September 2009 03:36:55 Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2009-09-08, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 05:04:20 Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> >> > On Monday 07 September 2009 15:53:41 Santiago Suarez Ordoñez wrote:
> >>
> >> This is superb. Do you have any tricks that you learned with regards to
> >> the formatting or composing the text and that you could share?
> >
> > Yes, that printers want things rst2pdf doesn't do yet (like "break
> > chapters to an odd page" or "start counting from the 12th page", so I
> > will be adding those.
> 
> This is why for "large" projects like a book I still recommend the way
> via LaTeX. You get more than 20 years of expertise in desktop
> publishing for free.

Right. However, it's not as if those things are horribly hard, and I think 
there is a niche for a non-latex typesetting tool in the free software world, 
and I really don't think open office is it ;-)

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