OT: ebook, print documentation tools

[Rajinder Yadav]

Ian Petersen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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/>.
>>
>> Lyx is pretty suitable for *not* encouraging bad habits surrounding
>> engagement in physical layout.
>>
>> And it can generate a reasonable variety of output formats...
> 
> I'll second Lyx.  I've never written anything so ambitious as a book,
> but I used Lyx to take notes in the second half of university so I've
> spent a lot of time with it.  The printed output is _very_ pleasing to
> the eye.  Also, the tool itself is really nice--it lets you focus on
> the content and structure of the document and takes care of all the
> messy formatting for you.  I'm not sure what kind of web-friendly
> output you can generate, but you might be able to convert the LaTeX,
> PDF, or PostScript output to HTML using some sort of filter.  Also, if
> your book has even the slightest whiff of math in it, you can't beat
> the equation editor in Lyx.

I know what you mean by very pleasing to the eyes, just playing with it now and 
I am loving this tool. Going to write my notes using Lyx from now on =)

> 
> Ian
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