On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:19:34 +0200 Thomas Løcke <thomas.granv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, > > I'm about to start the process of writing the 2nd edition of a fairly > long (+150 A4 pages) internal manual. It's about a set of software > systems and programming practices in my business. The 1st edition was > written using OpenOffice. I remember spending a lot of time trying to > make things "look good", and when I'm reading the manual today, I'm > constantly reminded of how hard I failed at that. :o) > > So for this 2nd edition, I've been looking for some better tools, and > this has brought me to LyX. I've installed LyX and TexLive on my > Slackware 12.1 system, and I've tinkered some with it. It appears to > be *exactly* what I'm looking for. > > But before I start writing, I'd like to ask if there are any good > resources on using LyX for writing what is essentially a book on > programming. I'd really like to avoid painting myself into a corner, > like I did with OpenOffice. > > Any and all advice is more than welcome. Steve Litt is your man - he has done several books that sound similar to this. I have done a 600 page law textbook with LyX (but the publisher insisted on a Word file). Lots of indexing, table of statutes, table of cases. Worked flawlessly. I also did a (smaller format) cookbook which had lots of minipages and images. Again, no problems at all: http://books.lulu.com/content/728996 HTH, Alan > > Sincerely, > Thomas Løcke >
