[Gllug] Typesetting a book under Linux

[A. Alzola]

I've used OOWriter before quite successfully. If you get to grips with its 
style manager it can be quite a versatile tool.

Aarón


On Tuesday 04 November 2008 12:00:01 gllug-request at gllug.org.uk wrote:
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:13:49 +0000
> From: Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Typesetting a book under Linux
> To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <20081104121349.GQ7492 at hades.eco.li>
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> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:53:13AM +0000, - Tethys wrote:
> > What are the options? It's a text book, with a lot of full colour
> > images, some requiring full bleed. Image positioning is variable, and
> > text needs to flow around the images.
>
> Personally, I'd go with LaTeX, and get a copy of The LaTeX Companion (2nd
> ed.). It contains a large number of examples of image setting, getting text
> to flow around images, and all that other fun stuff.
>
> I suppose you could use PageMaker, or whatever it's called nowadays, but
> that'd cost lots of money.
>
> Dan
> --
> Oh don't the days seem lank and long
>         When all goes right and none goes wrong,
> And isn't your life extremely flat
>         With nothing whatever to grumble at!


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