OT: ebook, print documentation tools

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
> <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org> 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.
>
> Let me disagree, at least lightly...
>
> If you write in HTML, you'll be tempted to use HTML features, notably
> linking, which is pretty unamenable to the rather "ultimately serial"
> form of books.
>
> The last time I was working on a book (it's gone astray, due to
> collaborators being too busy for completion...), we were using Lyx
> <http://www.lyx.org/>.
>

This is terrific, I think I will download this tonight and start to
play around with it.

> Lyx is pretty suitable for *not* encouraging bad habits surrounding
> engagement in physical layout.
>
> And it can generate a reasonable variety of output formats...
> --

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav

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