From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 16:57:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A9416A404 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:57:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F1B13C4D0 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:57:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3UGvS8O012743; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:57:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <46361FF3.5000008@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:57:23 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept Office 98 + Publisher? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:57:49 -0000 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