Re: Software For Book Writing
On 11/07/08 02:56, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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 book is free-as-in-beer. Sounds like he might not be expecting
"patches".
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.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won't
have to worry about paying my mortgage."
Peggy Joseph, on why she loves Obama
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