Christian Mayer wrote:
> By using OpenOffice as the typesetting system he shows that there isn't
> an institution (e.g. the publisher) behind him that takes care of the
> little things that are the difference between an amateur work and an
> professional work (e.g. an editor, professional layout, perfect
> typesetting...)
Apparently you know very little about OpenOffice. OpenOffice has much
more in common with 'professional' typesetting software like FrameMaker
than you'd probably expect - and certainly more than the competing
M$-products ....
BUT, this is not the point. You can do excellent typesetting with
OpenOffice and doing very bad typesetting with FrameMaker is easy ;-)
- it just depends on the skills of the respective user. Judging this
book just by the software that was used to make it sounds really
stupid.
Indeed, this book was produced with a low buget, probably a budget that
doesn't allow for an expensive 'toolchain', but on the other hand it
has a pretty moderate price tag. So, what's wrong here ? A book that
targets at FlightGear beginners doesn't necessarily have meet the level
of O'Reilly "sendmail" ....
Martin.
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