OT: ebook, print documentation tools

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Rajinder Yadav wrote:

> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> > 
> > > I am thinking of writing a ebook, possibly even something for publishing.
> > > It's
> > > just an idea I am kicking around and I was wondering what is a good tool
> > > that
> > > I can use to create public quality documents?
> > 
> >    For an e-book, I would write it in HTML. For that, all you need is
> >    a text editor.
> 
> Currently I am using HTML to do my own write up. However I am looking for a
> tool that will create a table of content automatically and allow me to export
> the document in different formats, like html or pdf or plain text.
> 
> I know DocBook format is one such tool, but I am wondering what the print
> publisher use? For your published book with Apress, did you write the entire
> book in html and hand this over to them for printing.

   Unfortunately, Apress requires the manuscripts in MS Word .doc format. 


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