Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:57:23 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher? Message-ID: <46361FF3.5000008@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEAGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCIEAGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > When I wrote my book Addison Wesley used Quark internally, but required > me to submit my manuscript -on paper-. They then retyped it, sent me > the proofs (which had enormous numbers of typos in them) I corrected and > sent back. > > I asked them if I gave them the manuscript in Quark source files if they > would take that, (because I had access to a pirated copy of Quark and > figured I would import what I had written my book in) and they would > not. They required a paper manuscript. > > Thus, use whatever you want to write your book - if your going to get it > published most likely your publisher will not be using what your using. :-D --- a good insight. "Team written" books with some of today's publishers are even worse --- some friends of mine had a tome published with plenty of errors, including Microsoft Word "auto-corrections" inside their code blocks (I will grant that the publisher wasn't quite Addison-Wesley in stature). It's pretty easy to understand why many people choose to publish their work privately these days. Kevin Kinsey -- Credit ... is the only enduring testimonial to man's confidence in man. -- James Blish
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