On Thursday 08 February 2007 11:47, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thursday 08 February 2007 11:02, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Absolutely! LaTeX creates a beautifully typeset book. My last 3 books > >>> (and my upcoming one) were written in LaTeX (in my case via the LyX > >>> front end). > >> > >> Sadly, my publisher was not so up-to-date. I wrote my book in LaTeX and > >> had to use oolatex to morph it into Word format for the copy editing. > > > > Is there an emoticon for "barf"? > > > > Couldn't one define a "query" and "queryanswer" style, which would show > > up in the LaTeX source but not on the finished document, that could be > > used for queries and answers? > > With coauthors I usually use the comment style, or just inline comments, > to do this. But my publisher wasn't willing to work with it that way. In > my field, what publisher you're on is exceedingly important, and this was > my first book, so what they say goes!
I spoze it doesn't matter, because the publisher gives you a stylesheet (guess you call it a "template" in MSWord) and you use only the styles from within that, and you hammer out content. Sams demanded I use MSWord for Samba Unleashed, and it wasn't a problem because I had absolutely no responsibility for formatting. They gave me a template and a 2 page style guideline, and I did what they asked and let them worry about getting it to fit in the book. It was as easy as rolling off a log. If you're anything like me, once you start self-publishing, LaTeX (or LyX in my case) will become absolutely indispensible. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
