Hm, why do people think I'm trying to attack OpenOffice?!? I even use it myself...
Martin Spott schrieb: > 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 .... I know OpenOffice at least good enough to use it on my own box for writing letters... (for longer works I use LaTeX) Typesetting isn't only abut the placement of pictures - it's also about ligatures and kerning, to name a few. There you run into problems where OpenOffice isn't there - yet. It took TeX years to get it right, but now it's quite perfect. > 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. If the program doesn't support the features needed for professional typesetting even the skilled user can't do excellent typesetting. BTW: I didn't judge to sample chapter on the tool. But after reading some sentences (most sentences have very similar structure, there are grammatical errors, ...) I did a judgement about the content. Then I looked at the layout and typesetting which also didn't impress me. Looking at the used tool *then* totally fit into the picture I already had. (I've written exactly that in my first post about that subject) > 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" .... There's nothing wrong here - I've already written that before: > All of this is no problem (I know lots of poorly written books) - except > that this book pretends to be official. CU, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
