I was asked by SAMS to write a book about SVG once. Everyone wanted me to do it. I wiggled out of it when I discovered that their publishing process involved heavy use of Word templates. No fucking way I'm writing a book in Word. None. Not even if you hire me some help. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Prof. John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>wrote: > I recently completed a 313 page book using Latex. The learning cost is > heavy, but the > rewards are too. > > Latex is also used by a lot of technical / scientific publishers. I've a > paper in process > at the moment. Style sheet supplied. Bibliographic support is strong, but > again needs > learning. > > There are also recent developments in what is termed "reproducible > research" to allow code > to be embedded in Latex. We use this to write articles where the statistics > (procedures > and data) may change. Running special scripts in Sweave and ODFweave allow > latex and/or > OpenOffice docs to be processed to finished pdf. There are apparently other > initiatives > like this, but they suggest a useful way to incorporate code and data into > documents that > avoid copy and paste errors. > > JN > > -- Cheers! Rick "It's a summons." "What's a summons?" "It means summon's in trouble." -- Rocky and Bullwinkle