From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue May 22 14:52: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailin6.bigpond.com (juicer03.bigpond.com [139.134.6.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F12837B424 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 14:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.51]) by mailin6.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDRBNJ00.B27; Wed, 23 May 2001 07:57:19 +1000 Received: from 144.137.128.187 ([144.137.128.187]) by mail7.bigpond.com (Claudes-Selfless-MailRouter V2.9c 15/14546733); 23 May 2001 07:51:55 Message-ID: <00fe01c0e309$6a574950$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "ML Duke" , "David Johnson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:51:48 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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