[TOS] Teaching materials, or textbook?

[Dru Lavigne]

> > One of the problems here is that O'Reilly is going to want the book
> > formatted in either DocBook or (heaven forbid!) Microsoft Word (with
> > their fancy macros that make it very DocBook-like).
> 
> O'Reilly can also accept ODT (OOo) styled with a stylesheet they
> provide. Afaik, they transform it to DocBook too.


It also depends upon who your editor is at O'Reilly. I was lucky enough to use vi, Pseudopod, and subversion:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/06/03/bsdhacks.html

With ReedMedia (http://reedmedia.net/), we used vi, LaTeX, and subversion. It looks like with APress we'll be using OpenOffice, but I have convinced them to use subversion as I can't envision writing a book without version control.

Cheers,

Dru
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