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Re: Software For Book Writing



On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not 
> sure what software to use to write it.
> 
> 	I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want 
> to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. format(s).

Why not just use PDF/HTML? Those will do very well for a read-only 
version.

If you want them to be able to edit it: how are you going to merge in 
their changes?

> The reason that I want to use something like Vim is because I'd be 
> able to make a more censored version of the book on the fly for 
> certain people to download (underagers, for instance).  I thought 
> that latex would be what I needed, but I'm not sure.  I thought 
> DocBook, but isn't that for documentation?  I need something that 
> goes the whole nine yards, The Little Brown Handbook style (footnotes, 
> etc.).  Thanks for the help.

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