[Python-authors] Book writing software

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 4/20/13 8:09 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm going to go the self-publishing route. Right now, I'm going to 
> focus on ebooks, although converting it to print would be fun later on.

If you want to do a professional rendering I encourage you to use LaTeX.

It has all the tools needed to create a book ready to be published, and 
you can tweak the options to have different sizes/look depending on
the target device/print.

One anecdote:  I used LaTex for one of the book I wrote and it ended up 
being edited at an editor's. They were able to send it as-is to the 
printer !

But.. he came back to me all panicked the day after because the pdf did 
not have the cutting crosses the printer asks (called 'mire' in french) for
cutting  the pages. All it took me was to add one line to include a 
LaTex plugin that adds them, and render the PDF again.

This would have been impossible with another format like word or reST.

OTHO LaTex is painful to edit/read compared to reST.  IIRC Lennart 
Regebro (who I added in CC) did his Python 3 porting book entirely in Rest
so he might have an interesting PoV

Cheers
Tarek

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