Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:34:18 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105221428540.294-100000@mlduke.concentric.net> In-Reply-To: <3B0A9F21.6C6654F3@acuson.com>
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Johnson wrote: > 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
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