Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:51:48 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "ML Duke" <mlduke@concentric.net>, "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD Message-ID: <00fe01c0e309$6a574950$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105221428540.294-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
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StarOffice forever !!!!!!! :) > > 1) If you know MSWurd very well, then it is going to be easier to write > > the book in MSWurd than in StarOffice or Applix. You will need to format > > the final document, and it's easier and faster to format in a WYSIWYG > > word processor than to use DocBook, TeX or groff macros. > > I would strongly disagree. > > > 2) Publishers accept submissions in MSWord only, for the most part. > > Last one I dealt with (Northlight Books) wanted plain ASCII > text. Period. > > Duke > > > edit a Linux programming book. But the galley was in MSWord and I had > > submit all corrections and edits as inplace MSWord comments. Since the > > job wouldn't pay enough to cover a harddrive+Windows+MSOffice, I had to > > turn it down. > > You could use WP for Linux and save it as a wordcrash file > (dependent upon the version acceptable, mine will convers > up to 6.0/7.0 without problems -- as long as you don't confuse > wordcrash with good fonts). > > Duke > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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