[TOS] Using FLOSS Manuals for textbook authoring

[adam hyde]

hi,

Cool! ok...here we go...

There is a book ready for you here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering

There is a manual on how to use FM here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/flossmanuals

Chapters that would be most relevant would be :
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/WriteManuals
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/CreateAChapter
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/Editing
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/EditTools

and for those that want to dig a little deeper:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/IndexIntro
http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/IndexBasics

Let me know if I can help.


:)

adam




On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 15:04 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, adam hyde wrote:
> 
> > hey,
> >
> > We have output to PDF and HTML and an embed API. We would build export
> > to docbook for you. LaTeX also possibly...
> >
> > As for dev of a new book, I can set it up for you now...just give me the
> > nod...
> 
> All right.  Let's go ahead and set it up.  Working title: Practical Open 
> Source Software Engineering.  I presume we can change that later.  ;)
> 
> > On the point of control over formats...what would you want from LaTeX? 
> > we have very good PDF output for print-ready (book formatted) PDF...this 
> > includes good textflow, bi-directional text and unicode compliance and 
> > layout control via CSS. So we can pretty support a lot of layout options 
> > - is this enough or do you have other needs that only LaTeX can supply? 
> > (also by-the-by we have a good translation workflow)...
> 
> I have no idea.  For these questions I will defer to Jared Smith, our 
> docbook guru.  In the short term, I'm not concerned, but in the longer 
> term, we may want some flexibility.  That's all.
> 
> --g
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